Supermodel Drama
I have been reading about the suit from Liskula Cohen and how she demanded that her "cyber bully" be revealed so that she can pursue charges/defamation suit if she so chooses.
Google had to comply with the court order, unfortunately and now the drama is that the other party, Port, is planning to sue Google for 15 million dollars.
Drama, drama, drama.
Granted of course I may not agree with what Porter said about Cohen, but I would like to examine the following: Who is really the bully?
Personally for me, if someone made unjust comments about me, I would just laugh it off and say, "Well, clearly that person doesn't know me and he/she is entitled to his/her opinion".
Perhaps it is cowardly to hide behind anonymity and make comments. I don't know... I think that for certain cases, you have to hide behind anonymity. However, I think that in this fiasco, the bully is the one who forced Google to reveal the identity of the blogger.
Now by doing so, there's another possible lawsuit that Google has to deal with. Do I think this lawsuit is justified? Probably not... I think it's rotten to sue someone because they were complying with a court order. Of course, Port has the right to this lawsuit, I am not a lawyer and I wish her the best of luck for that lawsuit. I just feel bad for Google. (Even though they are a big corporation)
Well, I better start looking into my savings to make sure that I have a lawyer to defend me...
1 Comments:
I have a hard time picturing any circumstances in terms of expressing personal opinion where anonymity is required, except, of course, in cases where possibly it might endanger your job or result in repression in countries that pay less lip service to free speech.
Barring those situations, I can't picture many. I'm reminded at a certain university when there was an article published in which a student who felt fearful for his personal safety hid behind anonymity to reveal that he liked to bash gay people. Um, maybe YOU should feel unsafe then...call me wacky...
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