Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger 432
floppy ears writes "Pseudonymous blogger Atrios has been threatened with a subpoena and lawsuit for defamation. Apparently Atrios used a headline 'Diary of a Stalker' in reference to Donald Luskin. In response to the posting, several anonymous commentators made some allegedly libelous statements about Luskin, and now Luskin has hired an attorney and started making threats and demands. The funniest thing is that Luskin has previously referred to himself as a stalker in his own headline: 'We Stalked. He Balked.'."
I've always found it ... (Score:2, Interesting)
- wash, rinse, repeat.
observation? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:What a royal pussy! (Score:3, Interesting)
IMHO, libel and slander have always been valid reasons to pursue restitution in the courts.
Why should blogging should not have any more protection than other forms of publishing (or speaking publicly for that matter)?
Luskin v. Krugman (Score:5, Interesting)
Bush is aiming at B, but he has made no political preparation for it. Nobody is ready to accept drastic cuts in Medicare and Social Security. Without that preparation, we are most likely headed towards C.
Re:I've always found it ... (Score:2, Interesting)
Since the articles on
Re:correction (Score:3, Interesting)
"Two people can keep a secret, but only if one of them doesn't know it" (i.e. your identity)
Re:Luskin v. Krugman (Score:2, Interesting)
Partisan politics sucks.
If you get filled with any more shit your head's gonna pop. Partisan politics sucks, but you throw the meaningless term "left" around like it was going out of style? You know, your head DOES contain a brain, it's not just ornamental. You could always just ignore people who insist on taking a party line on every issue since debating things with them is fruitless anyway. At the same time, you could have intelligent debates with people who think about each issue independant of what a particular political affiliation thinks of it. The first step is to realize the anyone who takes a party stance on every issue automatically is an idiot and isn't worth listening to or arguing with. The second step is to realize that anyone who uses meaningless terms like "left" or "right" or "liberal", etc. as a political insult is part of the "party-line idiot grouping" mentioned previously.
Delicious Irony (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.thestreet.com/comment/openbook/10609
August 30, 2000 -
The worst solution to the problem of manipulation on discussion boards is to shift the responsibility for enforcement from the regulators to the board sponsors. The host of an online discussion board is no more in a position to monitor and assure the quality of every posted message than a "common carrier" such as AT&T is to monitor every utterance made over its telephone network.
Re:what ever happened... (Score:3, Interesting)
If Joe Writer for the Nowhere News writes a column, it's likely he is viewed as a professional jounalist. Regardless of the circulation of Nowhere News it is more likely the few people who read it would believe it because it is Nowhere News' job to present factual information.
Now, if some 13 year old on a blog calls you a faggot or a child molestor it's not likely anyone of the millions upon millions of people in his world wide audience will stop and think "wow, I've really got to watch out for this RobotRunAmok guy".
I think you got it right when you said "amateur ramblings" the "globally distributed" part really doesn't matter.