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Originally Posted by Max Cannon
The blogger is 100% right...blogs are often used as personal diaries to rant ones mind much like you would write in a paper diary.
Blogs are not necessarily to communicate to a public forum. Her identity should have never been revealed.
A libel case against her saying those rude things would have failed in court
She has an excellent case for herself and is smart to pursue it against Google
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The problem is once you put it up online for everyone to see, it's public. If she wanted to rant such that no one else would see it, she could have made it a private blog.
I've learned that lesson myself. I once made a post on my MySpace blog that was critical of a couple family members, and even though none of them were on Myspace or ever looked at my page, they ended up finding my post (through Google) and pitching a fit. I'm not a violent or mad person or anything, and part of why I'm not is the need to vent now and then, but naturally the subject of the vent would never understand that. So yea, I learned my lesson and my Myspace blog is now vanilla and boring (I probably haven't posted on it in over a year).
Barely anyone went to my blog too but the person that counted did and that's all that mattered - such is this case. Google outing her identity...not sure what to say about that. I think it's fucked up but if they were court-ordered to do it, what are they supposed to do?