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Google Gives Up IP of Anonymous Blogger

Posted by kdawson on from the balancing-rights dept.

An anonymous reader alerts us to a story out of Israel in which Google (its Israeli subsidiary) gave up the IP address of a Blogger user without being compelled to do so by a court. A preliminary ruling was issued in which a court indicated that the slander the blogger was accused of probably rose to the level of a criminal violation. Google Israel then made a deal with the plaintiffs, local city councilmen whom the blogger had been attacking for a year. Google disclosed the IP address only to the court, which posted a message (Google says the anonymous blogger got it) inviting him/her to contest the ruling anonymously. When no response was received within 3 days, Google turned over the IP address to the plaintiffs' lawyers.

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  1. double entendre by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google Gives Up IP of Anonymous Blogger

    Sounds like that guy could use a good IP attorney.

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    1. Re:double entendre by FuzzyDaddy · · Score: 4, Funny
      i believe that slander, libel, defamation, etc are... perhaps outdated concepts.

      I would expect no less from a fascist wife beater like yourself.

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    2. Re:double entendre by Reaperducer · · Score: 4, Funny

      in a country like the one I live in, where the citizens are told that they have free speech, but where you can be jailed for years for speaking certain truths to your lawyer, spouse, or doctor, and where thugs can come to your home or workplace and intimidate you if you publicly question your rulers, anonymous speech is necessary.
      That's why so many people are moving out of California.
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    3. Re:double entendre by moderatorrater · · Score: 4, Funny

      Judging from your user name, I'm prone to trust you. You sound like a parental figure to me.

    4. Re:double entendre by Internalist · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would expect no less from a fascist wife beater like yourself. I dunno, if my wife was a fascist, I'd probably beat her.
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  2. How Can You by Trailwalker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slander a politician? Did he accuse them of honesty?

  3. Comcast vs Google vs Apple vs MS by king-manic · · Score: 5, Funny
    Google: would require a court order to give the IP. negotiated a weak compromise. handed over IP.

    Comcast: Would give the IP without a court order, offer to enable electronic wiretaps, and give full logs of everything that IP did.

    Apple: Would require a court order to give IP. Negotiate a weak compromise. Hand over the IP on a sleek and stylish apple brand flash drive.

    Microsoft:

    It appears you are trying to arrest an anonymous person. Would you like me to:

    *Find their unique CPU ID?

    *Transmit contents of their hard drive?

    *Enable back door key logger?

    *Contact Microsoft Sales representative for more options?

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  4. Re:Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    > First the Israeli court came for the Israeli criminal blogger. But I was not an Israeli criminal blogger so I did nothing.
    > Next the Israeli court ... did some kind of Israeli law thing ... and then the story kind of went nowhere ... so again, I did nothing.
    > I really need something to do. But I lack motivation. I suppose I could blog ... nah.

    And when (in Soviet Russia!), the Jews came for YOU, Google had already given them your IP address!