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Web Site Sues Annoying Pest Troll
kongjie writes "Cleveland's The Plain Dealer has a story in the business section about a pest-control web site that is suing someone who obviously has a particular bone to pick with exterminators: he is accused of being a "troll" who "constantly leaving obnoxious and offensive messages" on their pest-control bulletin board. The suit is for $5,000 and is for "violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.""
This one is it.
from the not-not-this-web-site dept.
Could you please eliminate one of those extraneous nots?
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
Ok perhaps we need to clear up a few things. Firstly a few misconceptions. The internet is not a democracy, its an oligarchy (government by the few). What does this imply? It implies that the virtual space on the internet that you use that is not a) your own or b) contracted to you to manage, you have no rights to. You are there as a privlidge. (IRC is a great example of this) It is not 'public' space. it is *shared* space.
Being that this is a shared space and random person is neither point A nor point B, there is a level of conduct expected by the ppl that are A and B, and you can be bounced if they deem fit. Please recall that you as A or if so given power as B have the right to control your network, everything coming in and going out.
If you wanan run your own space with your own rules go ahead.. but i'll clue you in here, you wanna let ppl run amok and piss of everyone, you aren't going to get anyone there over then people pissing on each other.
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"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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RTFJ.
But your freedom of speech may be limited on someone else's property.
Someone else's property begins at my property line, and continues in all directions for thousands of miles. Do you mean to suggest that the first amdendment applies to me only within the confines of my property? May I practice relgion only in my yard, and peaceably assemble only in my living room? What, as I referenced earlier, of those who don't own land? You seem to seriously believe that the first amendment exists only for these people at the behest of exceptions in their lease agreement. Did you read the part in the Declaration of Independence about how we (Americans) believe rights flow? Rights are inherent, not to be granted by the government, but you seem to have no problem relegating those rights to landowners.
If a tenant who happened to create offensive religious art, such as photos of crosses in bowls of urine, were evicted on that basis, would you find that to be reasonable? What about an employee fired for wearing a pentragram pendant? What would you say if, not only were the wiccan fired, but also sued for "disrupting the flow of business"?
You want landowners to have final say on all power in this country. Shall we allow only landowners to vote?
We tech people have become quite used to the Godlike power of webmaster, haven't we? Have we become so used to it that we don't understand the freedom equation anymore?
Read it and weep trolls