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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?

5 of 476 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Expectation of anonymity? by A.+B3ttik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Agreed. Thank-you, GP, for the response. Mod GP up.

  2. Re:My fiduciary duty is to point out that... by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Liskula Cohen is a skank and a ho. For that matter, so is Rosemary Port.

    Actually, Ms. Port would look quite fetching in a white shirt and red plaid miniskirt.

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  3. Re:Expectation of anonymity? by somersault · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Die,A.B3ttik?

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    which is totally what she said
  4. blog: Rosemary Port in the flesh by nadaou · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://janetishungry.blogspot.com/2007/06/filet-mignon-with-rosemary-and-port.html

    mmmmm, yummy.

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  5. Re:My fiduciary duty is to point out that... by fprintf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If meta-moderation is worth anything, the moderator(s) who participated in modding this interesting instead of funny will be corrected. Not that it matters anymore with the aggregated karma scores.

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