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Google, NY skanks and the right to libel
Model Liskula Cohen recently filed a lawsuit against Google because the company initially refused to reveal the name of the anonymous blogger who described her in defamatory terms on a Google-hosted blog, Skanks in NYC. Cohen then turned to the New York Supreme Court, which ordered Google to reveal Port’s identity.
Now the blog author – Rosemary Port – has hit back with a $15m lawsuit. Her argument is that Google “breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity”. In plain English, this means she thought she was legally protected from having her identity revealed, regardless of what she wrote. Read the rest of this entry »
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