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Model Drops Lawsuit After Outing Anonymous Blogger

Posted by kdawson on from the you-can-pull-your-pants-up-now dept.

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?

6 of 476 comments (clear)

  1. Um, what? by Timothy+Brownawell · · Score: 5, Funny

    a Fashion Institute of Technology student

    Odd name, is it associated with Apple somehow?

  2. Ladies, ladies, come on, can't we solve this in by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  3. Re:My fiduciary duty is to point out that... by Thanshin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Expectation of anonymity? by Kjella · · Score: 5, Funny

    In RL, there is no anonymity

    British?

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  5. Re:Expectation of anonymity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Expectation of anonymity? by Cragen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha! Good point. I will be posting it, um, soon. Bah-ha-ha!