She joined an STD dating site for all the wrong reasons. Judge orders her off
A federal judge has ordered a 21-year-old from North Carolina to stop swiping and start deleting.
Jada Ridley, of Anson County, joined a dating website designed for people living with sexually-transmitted diseases in January.
It’s called PositiveSingles, and it’s described as “a safe place” for people with STDs to meet and date similarly affected people “to prevent further spread of STDs,” according to the site. But Ridley wasn’t looking for love or anything close to it, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
She took screenshots of members’ names, photos, ages, locations and the diseases that affect them. Then she posted them to Facebook, where more than 5,000 people shared them and more than 2,700 commented on them.
Not only was that “egregious and deplorable,” lawyers for PositiveSingles wrote, but also “in direct violation of the End User Services Agreement,” which “expressly prohibits” members from copying other members’ content and making it public.
United States District Judge Graham Mullen wrote in an order he signed Wednesday that if she doesn’t get off the website, “immediate and irreparable harm” will follow.
Now she’s banned for life and must delete the app and any screenshots she has of members or their information. If she doesn’t, she’d be violating a judge’s order.
In a complaint, lawyers for PositiveSingles wrote that Ridley on her Facebook profile “touts that she is ‘pretty and mean.’”
“We agree,” they wrote. “Her actions are ‘mean’ and malicious. She must be stopped.”
Ridley and PositiveSingles’ lawyers did not respond to requests for comment before publication of this article.
