How to avoid lawsuits for a website that could enable illegal actions by users?

Posted by Richard DesLonde on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Richard DesLonde
Published on 2012-07-10T18:58:53Z Indexed on 2012/07/10 21:24 UTC
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How do you avoid getting into trouble with the law or lawsuits for a website that could enable illegal or potentially harmful activity by its users.

The only thing I can think of is to make the content wholly user-generated, and thereby I have no control or say or responsibility for what goes on there.

As an example, a website that shows great ski and snowboarding locations...well people could get hurt, or ski and snowboard on land where they are tresspassing, etc.

Thoughts?

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