City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website 429
Mike writes "In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind case, the Sheboygan city attorney ordered Jennifer Reisinger to remove a link to the city's police department from her Web site. The city went further, she claims, launching a criminal investigation of her for linking to the department on one of her sites, and in response she's suing the mayor and the city. 'The mayor decided to use his office to get back at Jennifer for her efforts in the recall and picked this to do it,' said her attorney, Paul Bucher. It appears this will go to court, and the question will be can a city (or any business or Web property) stop people from posting a link to its site?"
don't do what? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:don't do what? (Score:5, Funny)
Have you looked at the code and graphics on that site?
It should be illegal to link to it.
Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? (Score:5, Funny)
oh be quiet you lunatic ;-)
Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? (Score:3, Funny)
It wouldn't be the first time someone used slashdot as a dos tool, IIRC
Wow (Score:0, Funny)
What are they trying to hide, the fact that they have an awful Web site?! Bonus lulz for the Homeland Security Advisory System widget. Lock up your daughters: the risk is at: "Elevated - Significant Risk of Terrrist Attack y'all"
Notice the hit counter down at the bottom of the page, it currently reads: 96,453. Let's see if we can make that sucker go up a little, before the server crashes.
Heh, they can't get me for bringing down their server either! What're they going to do, extradite me? Oh hang on ... I'm Briti
[CARRIER LOST]
Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? (Score:5, Funny)
Go eat the earth flag.
Not the one made out of skin, of course.
Oye (Score:5, Funny)
You know a organization knows what they're doing on the web when their landing page is titled NEW PAGE 1 and was made with FrontPage 5.0
Re:don't do what? (Score:4, Funny)
I did my civic duty and clicked every link on their sidebar.
Re:don't do what? (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder why?
meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"
Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? (Score:4, Funny)
Sheesh, drag 'n drop is way superior to thinking. Or having to work with one of those icky 'coders' who complains if you change your image dimensions halfway through the project.
Flash is awesome!
Barbra Streisand asks that... (Score:1, Funny)
people please stop linking to the Shebogan Police Department [sheboyganpolice.com].
It hurts their feelings.
Re:don't do what? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but that's pretty tame. It would be more interesting to google-bomb them. Something like "Sheboygan police are autocratic censors [sheboyganpolice.com]". Or we could just call them a bunch of baby-smoking iguanodons [sheboyganpolice.com] with home-spun cheese ethics [sheboyganpolice.com].
Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? (Score:5, Funny)
"editor", eh?! You'll learn soon, grasshopper.
VP Material (Score:2, Funny)
sounds like if Palin falters, McCain has his new running mate
Re:"nolo mi tangere"? (Score:4, Funny)
If you are a real Latin grammar nazi, you should chisel the correction on your monitor.
Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? (Score:2, Funny)
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war
Married people would differ with this.
And, obviously, another difference between war and marriage is, you can sleep with enemy...
Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? (Score:3, Funny)
Where's the cop page? I was gonna link to it.
Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? (Score:3, Funny)
From http://www.bratcitywebdesign.com/ [bratcitywebdesign.com]
Sheboygan Police department sued Jennifer Reisinger when she added a link to them on her website [sheboyganpolice.com]
This post should be indexed by Google quite soon ;-)
Mod me up if you support FREEDOM and oppose FASCISM!!!11
Re:sheboyganpolice.com (Score:4, Funny)
>Phone: 459-3341 / Email: jwinter@sheboygan.wi.us
I'd have kept quiet about his role if I had this site to look after.
What really worries me (Score:5, Funny)
We, the men and women of the Sheboygan Police Department, value:
* Human Life
* Accountability
etc.
Do they *really* need to state they value human life? Is there an assumption that the norm is to not care who dies? What sort of crazy department is that?
Re:sheboyganpolice.com (Score:4, Funny)
For some reason, I though it was some weird pr0n site: She-Boy-gangpolice.com
What can I say, it's still early here. I'll wake up soon.
Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? (Score:5, Funny)
That makes you a maverick, not a lunatic.
You and a hundred fifty million other people.
Okay, so that was a joke: there aren't a hundred fifty million people that vote in this country.
Re:sheboyganpolice.com (Score:5, Funny)
It's a liberal myth, you insensitive clod! (Score:1, Funny)
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.