Theos-Talk Archives (February 2006 Message tt00569)

The privacy guaranteed on the Internet is a very vauable right of everyone
and I am the first to support and defend it. However in cases where
preserving some one's reputation is the subject, the individual concerned
can determine how to address anyone's concern.  The difficulty faced is that
once when people have some doubts at issue, lingering doubts tend to stick
and hard to overcome as time passes.

mkr

On 2/24/06, samblo@cs.com <samblo@cs.com> wrote:
>
> mkr,
>    Right! I love the Forensic Sciences, they never fail to impress me. But
> the primary problem here as everyone already knows is this: anonymity is
> guaranteed on the Internet under existing Law as regards forums, boards,
> etc. It is
> the hallmark of the Internet that people remain anonymous in the interest
> of
> free exchange of communication and the safety from reprisal from unstable
> personalties. Even today there have been Government requests for obtaining
>
> identities of bloggers and others who for some reason have caused interest
> to focus on
> them but except for extreme cause courts are obligated to protect the
> anonymous identity afforded to all on the Internet posting their thoughts
> and
> expression as such and any suppressive intrusion on this feature of the
> Internet would
> be a mortal wound to free expression and communication.
>      Legal remedy and petition for redress is an avenue open to all and
> any
> who feel injured or maligned on both sides, accused or accuser, the only
> requirement is they meet and satisfy the rigorous test of the Law to
> arrive at their
> intended goal. Nothing except the satisfaction of the Law prevents that,
> both
> sides are aware of that if they have looked into their options. My opinion
> is
> the Court is a proper resource to settle the dispute not a Forum where
> several hundred detached and uninterested members are subjected against
> the ability
> to prevent, to a decades or more of posts amounting to hundreds over the
> years
> listing complaints, grievances, speculations, attempts to enlist others in
> their fixation and so on. Here is one website useful for a perspective:
>
> <A HREF="http://www.cyberslapp.org/intro.cfm";>
> http://www.cyberslapp.org/intro.cfm</A>
>
> http://www.cyberslapp.org/intro.cfm
>
> and another:
>
> <A HREF="http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/cyberslapp.php ">EFF:
> CyberSLAPP / John Doe Cases</A>
>
> http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/cyberslapp.php
>
>
> John
>
>


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