Canada's Wayne Crookes Sues the Net

newtley writes "Wayne Crookes, the Green Party of Canada's ex-financier, is in effect trying to sue the Internet. He's going after the Wikipedia, Google, and openpolitics.ca (run up by federal Green Party activist Michael Pilling) claiming he's suffered, 'an immense amount of frustration and emotional distress' over postings. Some 15 others may also have been targeted. "Mr. Crookes seems to be 'trying to unwrite history,' Pilling says. 'He was a central figure in the growth of the Green Party. His actions were highly controversial and if we have freedom of speech in this country, people should be allowed to talk about them.'" Newtley adds in a posting submitted 121 minutes later: "Literally 15 minutes after I posted [the foregoing], there was a knock on my door. It was a writ server telling me I, too, have been named in a lawsuit launched by Wayne Crookes..."

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Re:submitter's conflict of interest

[DarrenR114]

Not so strange that your comment was improperly moderated with no recourse for you to protest -
The broken moderation and karma systems used by slashdot has made the entire thing so useless for the most part that many of us with very low user IDs have moved on to use other sites like Digg.com.

I only pop in very occasionally - using linuxhomepage.com to spot the rare article that I might read (and even fewer that I'll comment on.)