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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. A link by miraboo · · Score: 5, Informative

    to the actual blog: http://mpdenforcer20.blogspot.com/

    1. Re:A link by BPPG · · Score: 5, Informative

      They make some pretty serious allegations in this blog. Including possible murder cover-ups and tolerance of rampant sexual harassment directed at females in the police force.

      I'm not sure I really believe everything I'm reading here, but if much of it is true, then I can see why the MPD would want to shut them up.

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  2. Links by Morosoph · · Score: 5, Informative

    I notice that they haven't even linked the blog directly.

    Does anyone care about the stories, or it it just "another libertarian story that they'll love"?

    Granted, it wasn't hard to click through from the article, but it's not as if blogspot as going to get slashdotted, and free speech needs examples, not just meta-waffling.

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