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Monday, August 24, 2009
Skank Supermodel Update: Google Outs Blogger Rosemary Port, Who Outed Liskula Cohen. Rosemary Will Now Sue Google.
Posted by kotang at 5:17 AM
I don't think either of these feuding models (supermodels, ex-models, whatever) are skanks, really.
That's right, they know each other; Liskula (Skank 1?) supposedly trashed Rosemary (OK, for continuity, Skank 2) some when, somewhere in the past. So, woman scorned, and all of that; Rosemary invents a website for to trash Liskula, who then sues Google to find out who the then-anonymousy blogger Rosemary really is. Liskula forced Google to 'out' Rosemary, by threat of lawsuit. Google rolls over like a skank in heat.
Doesn't matter which of these young ladies is or is not a skank, or if either or both are really skanks. What matters is the lawsuit Rosemary has brought against Google, and whether or not she prevails. If she loses her lawsuit (or doesn't go forward) then that's a bit chilling to bloggers who use a pseudonym (like me).
From the article at Daily News | Gossip (skank gossip ? )...
This case, if it goes forward, has a chance to become a very important one."When I was being defended by attorneys for Google, I thought my right to privacy was being protected," Port said.
"But that right fell through the cracks. Without any warning, I was put on a silver platter for the press to attack me. I would think that a multi-billion dollar conglomerate would protect the rights of all its users."
In her suit, she'll charge Google "breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity," said her high-powered attorney Salvatore Strazzullo.
"I'm ready to take this all the way to the Supreme Court," Strazzullo said. "Our Founding Fathers wrote 'The Federalist Papers' under pseudonyms. Inherent in the First Amendment is the right to speak anonymously. Shouldn't that right extend to the new public square of the Internet?"
"I feel proud to live in a country where you're not persecuted for your opinions," Port said. "That right has to be protected.
"Even though people are now taking shots at me on the Web, I believe those people have a right to their opinions - and their anonymity," said Port, [emboldenings mine -ed.]
I'll keep my nose on it. Shouldn't be too hard; I've heard you can smell a skank from across the room... )
