Citizen Sues Nextdoor.com
Arthur West, of Olympia Washington, was an active user of the Nextdoor.com app. That is, until they didn’t like what he had to say and then kicked him off the platform.
Not one to be silenced, West sued Nextdoor and it’s CEO, using the precedent from a landmark sex offender case, Packingham v. North Carolina, that held the government cannot block an individual’s access to social media – which is the modern day “public square”.
West’s argument, that in partnering with government agencies, such as law enforcement, Nextdoor is acting as a quasi public body and therefore cannot restrict people from it’s public square. This is precisely the issue FAC has had with the company and their policy of banning registrants and their cohabitants from their website. (see: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/fac-response-to-nextdoor-coms-reply/ and https://floridaactioncommittee.org/fac-letter-to-nextdoor-com/).
This is a case we will be watching closely and would love to participate in.
A copy of the complaint can be found here: West v. NextDoor
Thanks to the member who alerted us to it’s filing!
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I need to either join an existing class action lawsuit against NextDoor.com or start one. I have had my account revoked because apparently my name is not ‘really’ my name. I think it might be because of it’s origins that they don’t care for. I mean, really. Now I can’t communicate or get information from my neighbors!
please contact legal@floridaactioncommitee.org
Hi my name is Antonio Alatorre contact info 9139993195. antonioalatorre73@gmail.com im unrelated to this issue but i am reaching out to you in guidance of legal help against the group next door which had violated me in so many ways and i have proof of it they have been the sole responsibles of my problems and demise causing havoc on my life in yhe way they have investigated me for wrongful issues never finding any wrongdoing causing my separation of my family my wife anf endangering my life with the scandalous and terrifying ways in which they stalked me day in day out prwventing me to do anykind of business in the community such as a simple drs appt often suggesting treatments and preventing me to conduct myself in every day life up to causing me g
To recwive threata and kidnapping attemps up To me trying to commit suicide in several occasions due to the way they have over run my life for morw than a year now if you know of some one legal representation that could help me i would deeply appteciatw it
I am currently having this issue also! I have been an active user for years and never had any problems. However, lately I have been having disagreements with neighbors about issues. They have remained respectful and never got out of hand. I changed my name after a transition (which Nextdoor allowed) and then MONTHS later, my account was deleted and I was told it was because Nextdoor could no longer find my name in the public record! They actually asked me to scan and email them copies of my government IDs. When I did not comply they told me I can not use the site anymore. I believe this was all due to my transition and my unpopular opinions. Discrimination!
Please know, these people haters in your neighborhood know how to use Nextdoor for neighbor bashing slander racist remarks and just plain evil hatred. They know how to work the system and do it over and over to neighbor after neighbor…for ATTENTION. If you disagree, or ask them to stop being mean, They have their Network, file complaints and get you removed. I recently made a positive post shouting out a thank you and asking for anyone to help with kittens. And the neighbor haters called me a baiter, and a woman that was helping me Foster these kittens a paranoid schizophrenic and baiter. Nextdoor loved that it increased their ad views and made them more money. When I ask the neighbors to please ignore these lonely housewives and Bullies who only spread hatred. Nextdoor removed me from their site. They blocked me when I posted to the neighbors to please post without fear of bullies. I never used any names… but the haters continue to post slander racist remarks and false accusations, and when I asked the neighbors to ignore these bullies and help with kittens if they wanted to, Nextdoor blocked me. Shame on them what a horrible website to make money on the hatred of others. Everybody gets theirs and these negative people will pay with their karma ..
all the good people will be rewarded. That’s why I don’t get angry, I’m just very sick of the cruelty for money allowed in this country and across the world.
My HOA has sent me three letters to sign up for Nextdoor. I will have nothing to do with Nextdoor.
You got it! People are using this app to slander other people out of jobs, medical care, all kinds of stuff. What they do is call you a suspicious person or whatever they do and you get blocked. This app is a public menace. Its like a giant mean girl club. But, what it is is cyber stalking and cyber crimes. Contact your states cyber unit. I am not even on this app but realized the neighbors were using it to slander me all over town!! I believe this is the roots of “gang stalking” or “community harassment”.
I have a 501c non profit in New Jersey and on their blog in the South Jersey area. I was blocked similar to your situation with no explanation or due process. I have sent them a Tort Letter with the intent to sue for Internet Defamation. They didn’t respond within the 7 days that I provided for an explanation as to the charge’s and ho made the charges.
I am putting together a Class Action Lawsuit in New Jersey, but if your interested in following this up contact me at lawprojectfoundation@gmail.com.
They blocked me 3 times. Once for giving a fake address…which is false. Guilty till you prove you are innocent ..and twice more for ” not following.”..
All 3 times were in respond to issues that were not popular, never wrote an insult. There is a group that intentionally reports everyone with different opinions. Nextdoor is biased and dies not check facts.
The reason they gave me for one of my disabling:
“We temporarily disabled your Nextdoor account after we received a complaint regarding your recent content and found that you had violated our Community Guidelines on be respectful to your neighbors.
Here is an example of the content that was brought to our attention:
” police officers do not kill black skin kids…they die from crimes in their neighborhoods. When you say women, children not being murder, what do you mean?”
A lady said that police are killing women and children. And there is no crime in the neighbourhoods …For me that was outrageous. Instead of blocking her, they blocked me.
It happened to me and few more people who oppose the riots.
I am considering to complain for non objective reactions.
I was blocked from Next Door because my husband is on the registry and since I live in the same home (Gasp), I was not fit to have an account. This was over a year ago that they informed me of this. Evidently, they aren’t well organized as I just received this e-mail from them that asked, “Are you celebrating Halloween this year?
Add your home to the Treat Map to let neighbors know if you plan to pass out treats or host a haunted house.” Idiots!
Im in Iowa. My Ex husband and the homeowner where he resides arent allowed on the app. Air is let of of my tires on a reg basis. Bikes have been stolen. Numerous times in the past. Im not a perfect person but this app can be used to hurt people. All incomes, all races, all states and all neighborhoods. Especially the homeless. They are vulnerable as well.
Even visiting my disabled son at his apartments Ive have kids on bikes ask where Im headed to next with big grins… Often walking the dog Ive witnessed cars parking after driving past us to look at phone then back at us.
This app can be used to hurt people. Least that’s my experience. I pray others dont endure this as well.
You have no idea how much I agree with you this is the third time I’ve been locked out of my own neighborhood account. They told me to abide by the guidelines and I wrote how sad I was to see stray dogs on the street and how it was such a sad thing to see that and I wrote go Blazers which is our home basketball team here that’s all I wrote and I got locked out of my account because I broke guidelines this is the third time they’ve done this to me I swear to God I’m going to sue them for so much money is not even funny I’m with you
they never notified me when they blocked me
Sure this is how they “gang stalk” people or community harassment. If you can get someone in the group to tell you whats going on and give u screen shots call it a cyber crime and have it investigated. Thats what they are doing this app is public nuisance.
Please, I have been suspended twice from Nextdoor twice. I live in Oakland Ca. With no explanation other than I broke the guidelines. Oakland is very liberal and I am as I know one of about 10 Republicans that are willing to admit it. I reached out to the ceo. Someone said they would contact me but never really did. I live here and have rights to my opinion in my neighborhood and to be aware of what is going on as this neighborhood is not safe. I want to sue for being censored. It’s not American. I’ve done nothing but help my neighbors
Hi was block for days election sign need to be take down. This was well over the time limit we were allowed in my city. People went crazy about it. I felt my freedom of speech was taken away. Last time I look I live in USA.I’m not that text smart. This Laura Vestrand send me a message to take down the thing I said. By the time I went on my app. I was block and couldn’t read her message. I’m thinking of during the app and my freedom of speech. I have the right. I mad that the embarrassing me with my neighbor and friends. I hope the other should get kick off for bullying each other. I didn’t bully anyone.
I would like to join the lawsuit or set one up in my location as I had a similar situation happened to me as a woman was illegally going through our neighborhood on Labor Day pretending that she was working for the US Census which it turned out she was not doing business for the US Govt as she stated. I reported her to Commerce Dept IG as a result I was bullied on NextDoor and later my account was revoked. Therefore, I plan to sue.
In Florida we have strict government meeting laws and public records laws. Nextdoor is partnering with our community law enforcement and city to provide information yet nextdoor prohibits from disagreeing with a government post, The Sunshine law means they are acting as a public body and can not censure and remove your content.
Wait so Nextdoor already is breaking Florida sunshine laws by deleting responses to government postings?
This sounds like good material for a Florida lawsuit.
So in Florida we need to report if we are censored? I would assume the attorney general.?
AWESOME ANALOGY and this true in florida. i never thought bout this law but know it well cus my city of riviera beach has been found guilty a few times.
Today I received in the mail, an invitation to join Nextdoor. “There are already over 800 posts on Nextdoor [my neighborhood name], including posts about crime and safety issues in the neighborhood.”
Good to know. The invitation comes with an access code that “expires in 7 days!”
What should I do? 🙂
Also, do we know whether Nextdoor has responded to the complaint of Arthur West, or whether the court has issued any rulings in that case?
I got one of those invitations also with an access code. I applied and was turned down. Knowing the background of this organization it doesn’t really break my heart. I got along quite well before they came on the scene and I will get along quite well long after they have faded from the scene.
Okay, that complaint is kind of funny. Mr. West seems like aa well educated but silgith nutty type. But you have to love a guy who throws references to Cato the Elder, the Gestapo and Josef Stalin’s birth name into a complaint. I i wish him well. LOL