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Model Drops Lawsuit After Outing Anonymous Blogger
JumperCable writes "The NY Daily News is reporting that model Liskula Cohen, who was suing the 'Skanks of NYC' blogger for defamation, is dropping the lawsuit now that she has outed the anonymous blogger, who is a Fashion Institute of Technology student named Rosemary Port. This brings up the question of potential abuse of the legal system to 'out' anonymous authors even if there is no intention actually to pursue a case against an anonymous individual. Also, according to the article, the outed blogger intends to sue Google for $15 million because it 'breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity.' Do Web hosting services even have a fiduciary duty to protect their clients, or is this all legal bluff and bluster?" Should such anonymity-busting court rulings include a provision for penalties if the plaintiff does not follow through with legal action after outing their target?
Odd name, is it associated with Apple somehow?
a civil manner? What ever happened to two women hashing out their differences in a wrestling ring filled with pudding instead of in the courtroom. Kids these days....
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Liskula Cohen is a skank and a ho. For that matter, so is Rosemary Port.
I hope nobody returns to slashdot after a long leave and starts by reading that post.
If it end up having a (+5 interesting) or somesuch, the scream of pure nerdrage would tear the spacetime continuum.
In RL, there is no anonymity
British?
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
is this all legal bluff and bluster?
No, this is all stupid bluff and bluster.
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
In fact, I am becoming more in favor of making everyone use their real name, all the time, to lessen the ridiculous-ness, the hateful content, the juvenile, spiteful posts, that we regularly see on forums.
I fully agree with this! No one should ever be allowed to hide behind the veil of anonymity.
Ha! Good point. I will be posting it, um, soon. Bah-ha-ha!
That's ok, according to M theory, it'd just destroy one copy of spacetime.
Meh...Everybody knows my name. You can just call me AC for short.
UNLESS, of course, they changed the Terms of Service since the original incident!! The plot thickens!!
you are correct Mister SpongeBobPoopyPants
Do Web hosting services even have a fiduciary duty to protect their clients, or is this all legal bluff and bluster?
If you want legal advice, why don't you go to Harvard or Yale law, bulletin board or something.
If you haven't noticed lately, our expertise lies mainly in games, which usually involves shooting people or blowing shit up. We're not to interested in the subtleties of legal discussion. If you can't shoot it or blow it the fuck up, we really don't have the patience for it.
Unless you are basically giving us a chance to call a member of the female persuasion whose twat we will never touch, a skank whore, then this article serves no purpose.
Liskula Cohen, you skank whore.
This is awesome, because it doesn't involve just one skank ho, but two of them!
I think something fishy is going on here due to the amazingly high level of animosity: They are either closet lesbians who secretly want each other or they are in cahoots and scamming the legal system.
Either way, I want to see the sex tape.
My IP address is 127.0.0.38.... wait, did you mean my REAL address? Okay, okay, its 127.0.0.1.
Sanity is like a condom: rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
Gilbert and Sullivan references on slashdot? Whatever next!
Maybe she would be entitled to a refund? Let's see, that would be about $0. Google should just preemptively offer her a refund of all money's paid - zero dollars - for their services...