The individuals involved in TCI Journal may have yet another defamation suit filed against them for their coverage of alleged corruption in Turks & Caicos Islands, a British territory. Turks & Caicos Weekly News reports: Inflammatory news website the TCI Journal is being threatened with yet another lawsuit for apparently publishing “patently false” and “defamatory”…
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Wikileaks Under Fire For Publication of Court-Protected Information
Chris Burke writes: Wikileaks, a whistle blower website, encourages and advertises anonymous tipsters to upload confidential documents to its site. But what if that document, or a portion of that document, were privileged by a court order? Such a scenario could be heading for a disaster with Wikileaks at the helm. Wikileaks is widely known…
The high cost of Internet (de)fame
Robert X. Cringely writes: If it seems like Notes From the Field is turning into the Notes From the Land of Internet Defamation and Anonymity, my apologies. But this is a topic that I’ve sunk my teeth into and now I can’t seem to unsink them. After my recent posts about Liskula Cohen (“Skanks for…
Court orders Google to reveal critics’ names
As a follow-up on a story previously discussed, Ben Fox reports: A resort developer has obtained a court order requiring Google Inc. to help uncover the identities of anonymous contributors to an online newspaper that posted articles linking him to government corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Developer Cem Kinay of Miami accuses TCI…