Reply #5: Nuisance suit, the paper is protected

[Robb]

...Amusingly, by Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act of 1996: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider....no cause of action may be brought and no liability may be imposed under any State or local law that is inconsistent with this section."

If it's in the comments section, the paper's off the hook.