Obscenities Fly In "Skank" Hearing - GoFuckYourself.com

Max Potential · 03-13-2009, 05:50 PM

Joshua Plaut slumped in the back of Manhattan's Supreme Court today, waiting for the judge and seemingly willing this whole affair to go away quietly. He hailed from the New York powerhouse law firm Wilson Sonsini, and Google was paying him top dollar to do as little as possible. The search giant, whose founders cling to their "Don't be evil" motto like guns and religion, had found itself in the middle of a tabloid frenzy, a courtroom drama pitting a statuesque Vogue model against an anonymous blogger who had decided the world needed to know she was nothing but a dried-up strumpet. For a company that prides itself on ennobling the world in between bouts of record-breaking quarterly profits, this was grief Google didn't need.

Last August, someone set up a Google blogger account and used it to create the blog Skanks in NYC, complete with photographs of New York model Liskula Cohen partying with her friends, as well as a few captioned observations about her sex life, age, and mental state. A horrified Cohen promptly got herself a lawyer and sued Google, seeking to force the company to divulge all identifying information the blogger provided when he or she registered the blog. The anonymous defamer's attorneys challenged the suit, insisting that federal law protects their client's online speech. Today, both sides met in court to duke it out.

The courtroom scene was Google's worst nightmare. On the one hand, the company has come under fire for collecting personal information from its users and storing it for months; if Google gave up the blogger too eagerly, its worst critics would have another barb with which to accuse it of playing fast and loose with its customers' privacy. On the other hand, who wants to be seen protecting some nasty, small-minded, cowardly gossip?.......

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Max Potential · 03-13-2009, 06:12 PM

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03-13-2009, 05:50 PM	#1
Max Potential Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,045	Obscenities Fly In "Skank" Hearing Joshua Plaut slumped in the back of Manhattan's Supreme Court today, waiting for the judge and seemingly willing this whole affair to go away quietly. He hailed from the New York powerhouse law firm Wilson Sonsini, and Google was paying him top dollar to do as little as possible. The search giant, whose founders cling to their "Don't be evil" motto like guns and religion, had found itself in the middle of a tabloid frenzy, a courtroom drama pitting a statuesque Vogue model against an anonymous blogger who had decided the world needed to know she was nothing but a dried-up strumpet. For a company that prides itself on ennobling the world in between bouts of record-breaking quarterly profits, this was grief Google didn't need. Last August, someone set up a Google blogger account and used it to create the blog Skanks in NYC, complete with photographs of New York model Liskula Cohen partying with her friends, as well as a few captioned observations about her sex life, age, and mental state. A horrified Cohen promptly got herself a lawyer and sued Google, seeking to force the company to divulge all identifying information the blogger provided when he or she registered the blog. The anonymous defamer's attorneys challenged the suit, insisting that federal law protects their client's online speech. Today, both sides met in court to duke it out. The courtroom scene was Google's worst nightmare. On the one hand, the company has come under fire for collecting personal information from its users and storing it for months; if Google gave up the blogger too eagerly, its worst critics would have another barb with which to accuse it of playing fast and loose with its customers' privacy. On the other hand, who wants to be seen protecting some nasty, small-minded, cowardly gossip?....... for full article; http://tbm.thebigmoney.com/blogs/fee...-skank-hearing __________________

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