{"id":526534,"date":"2010-04-13T18:58:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004511"},"modified":"2010-04-13T19:02:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T23:02:04","slug":"towing-company-sues-student-over-facebook-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526534","title":{"rendered":"Towing Company Sues Student Over Facebook Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T&J Towing of Kalamazoo, MI wants to send a message to anyone in the town who feels like complaining about the company online. They’ve filed a $750,000 defamation lawsuit<\/a> against a Western Michigan University student for starting a Facebook page<\/a> about them.<\/p>\n

The student, Justin Kurtz, told the local news station, <\/p>\n

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“It’s not like I was making untrue claims or anything. It’s not like I had control over anything that everyone had posted the whole time. I told everyone to be professional, don’t post any threats. Just tell your story and that’s what pretty much everyone did.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Towing co. wants $750K from WMU student”<\/a> [WOOD TV8] (Thanks to Dustin!)<\/i>
\n“Kalamazoo Residents against T&J Towing”<\/a> [Facebook]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

T&J Towing of Kalamazoo, MI wants to send a message to anyone in the town who feels like complaining about the company online. They’ve filed a $750,000 defamation lawsuit against a Western Michigan University student for starting a Facebook page about them. The student, Justin Kurtz, told the local news station, “It’s not like I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}