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Police Director Sues AOL For Critical Blogger's Name

Posted by samzenpus on from the tell-us-everything dept.

Pippin writes "Memphis Police Director, Larry Godwin, is suing AOL for the names of the authors of the Enforcer 2.0 blog. The blog is rumored to be authored by a Memphis police officer, and is critical of the department, Godwin, and some procedures. Godwin is actually using taxpayer dollars for this and, interestingly, the complaint is sealed".

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  1. Do, Do let me be first.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    with a Godwin Law violation...

    1. Re:Do, Do let me be first.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I believe this story has Godwined itself.

    2. Re:Do, Do let me be first.. by jimthehorsegod · · Score: 5, Funny

      and I do believe JD's law states that as the length of any discussion approaches infinity the probability of someone missing a joke approaches 1.

    3. Re:Do, Do let me be first.. by hostyle · · Score: 5, Funny

      "When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes balloon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be." - Jimmy Fallon

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    4. Re:Do, Do let me be first.. by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you mean 'meme'. Unless there's a whole other level of slashdot interaction that I am not aware of, where people mime each meme.

      In any case, I propose a Meta-Meme-Mime Meme: I feel a great disturbance in the air, as if every slashdotter in the world suddenly mimed the meme 'whoosh'.

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      which is totally what she said
    5. Re:Do, Do let me be first.. by sm62704 · · Score: 5, Funny

      so then whats the law for soviet russia

      In Soviet Russia, the law breaks YOU!

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  2. what? by edittard · · Score: 5, Funny

    is interestingly

    I don't know whether to be amusingly or annoyingly about the quality of the editing round here.

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    1. Re:what? by Stanislav_J · · Score: 5, Funny

      Grammar is for Grandmas -- it's so 20th century.....

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    2. Re:what? by clickety6 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Grammar is for Grandmas -- it's so 20th century.....

      I thought Grammar was for Grampar !

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  3. Re:Great idea. by kaos07 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Godwin's Law meets the Streisand Effect? Meme Meltdown!