Billed by its creator, Nik Richie, Thedirty.com is a popular gossip website where people can post content about others. Started as a reality blog in the first place, TheDirty.com quickly became a revenge site for posting defamatory content. Many people involved in online defamation have recently started using the website for personal gains by posting embarrassing pictures and fake stories about targeted individuals.
TheDirty.com has gained a lot of momentum in the recent few years. The website is growing rapidly and frequently being used be defamers. This automatically translates into an ever increasing rush of online traffic that has successfully helped ranked the website as highly authoritative across major search engines.
Let’s take an example of Mr. A. Once a piece of content saying that Mr. A got so wasted at a party that he jumped off a roof, accompanied along with a cheap Photoshop job is posted there, Mr. A is automatically in a lot of trouble.
Now when an HR representative from the company where Mr. A applied last week searches for Mr. A online, the results would be disastrous. Along with his Facebook and LinkedIn profile, the post on TheDirty.com would show among the top results. Ultimately, this will ruin his professional persona in the industry and could be damaging to his reputation in the long run.
The problem is it is legal. Yes, you read that right. TheDirty.com is protected by the Communications Decency Act U.S. 230 (CDA) and the website is protected against most legal claims made against it. Under this act, the owner of the website is not responsible for any content posted here by the users. It is the author of the post who is liable.
The good part is that we can help you remove posts from theDirty.com through our specialized online reputation management services approach. As most of the users are anonymous, it is almost impossible to look up people by their names. Therefore, we track and bring down the IP address used by the user so they can be addressed. Next begins the 5 to 7 day process of removing the posts.
When you choose us at Online Defamation Defenders, you can be sure that you made the right choice. We offer all our clients a 100% success rate. If we can’t do the job, we won’t accept it. However, we would surely try to help you out. Give us a call at 800-914-7628 to learn more.