Blogger Privacy?

If you're blogging and following the news, you're probably aware by now of the federal case about the slut woman who "blogged" details about her sex life. In case you're not aware, in brief, here's the details:

A whore woman slept around with a half-dozen or so slimes men and then wrote on her blog about them. One of the scum men decided to sue her for "revealing private details." And somehow he thinks he's got a case. Why in the world a judge hasn't thrown this one out, no one will ever know.

Folks, if you think you have any privacy of any kind today, you're really clueless. There's nothing that's private. I suppose something you do inside an interior room with no windows alone might be private, but that's about it. To claim that anything you do with someone else is private is completely insane. If a judge even considers this case, then gossip will suddenly be illegal!

But the way judges make up the rules and base their decisions on other (less free) countries, there's no telling how this will turn out. If the hooker woman loses this case, then there will be no press because no one will be able to talk about anything that anyone tells them. And oh yes, if she wins the courts will be full of millions of lawsuits for cash for anytime anyone ever revealed anything I, personally, think is private information.

Posted by: Ogre at 03:28 PM

Comments

1 Nice assessment of a no win situation. Web pages are public and what you write there is visible to the world. That's the wonder and the angst of the blogosphere. People have been writing about their sordid lives for years. I suspect she will win unless they can prove libel. I hope she enjoys being alone the rest of her life, for, who would have anything to do with her? Perhaps social ostracism will do what the courts cannot.
I truly hope that he does not win - the "freedom of the press" application to blogs is already being tested and this would truly push it over the edge.

Posted by: JulieB at December 28, 2006 08:48 PM (+C/+o)

2 I would like to say that I cannot imagine him winning -- but I see horrible cases being won in courts all the time in spite of common sense. And if he were to win, it would completely change all aspects of freedom of speech in this country.

Thanks for stopping along!

Posted by: Ogre at December 28, 2006 09:49 PM (TNHaE)

3 I thought the purpose of writing something online was to attract as large an audience as possible.

Posted by: Weapon of Mass Disturbance at December 29, 2006 02:05 AM (0eOeQ)

4 But if it is, so what? If I see something my neighbor does in his yard, am I permitted to write about it on this blog? According to the person that filed the lawsuit above, NO, I am not.

Posted by: Ogre at December 29, 2006 02:52 AM (TNHaE)

5 Actually, Ogre, I think it depends on what you saw your neighbor doing... if he's sunbathing au natural and you report, accurately, that he is somewhat under-endowed, he might take umbrage. Yet, he shouldn't be able to sue.
However, if you stood on a ladder and looked over the 6 foot board fence into his backyard and noted the abundance his unclothed wife exhibited, he might have a case, since that is technically a private area. Uh, I guess in more ways than one.
The problem with this, er, woman's case is that she was there, in the private situation, and made it a public one. I still don't see he's got a case unless she lied (libel). But, it bears watching. (sorry, bad pun)

Posted by: JulieB at December 29, 2006 06:35 AM (hOdiB)

6 Oh, that was indeed a bad one, Julie!

I just don't see the difference between someone coming in my house and telling me, "Hey Ogre, don't tell anyone this, it's a secret." And then me walking into the town square and yelling what they told me. Wrong? Perhaps. Libelous? Hardy!

Posted by: Ogre at December 29, 2006 04:12 PM (TNHaE)






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