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Liskula Cohen, a Canadian model, has sued Google over some critical posts that were made by a blogger using their Blogger service. The NY Daily News reports that the former Vogue cover girl was referred to as ’skanky’ and ‘an old hag’ by an anonymous blogger on a website called Skanks in NYC…careful…NSFW.
The defamation suit, which was filed in Manhattan, seeks a court order directing Google to identify the anonymous blogger. Google declined to discuss the case. Their only response was that they sympathize with victims of cyber-bullying but that they “take great care to respect privacy concerns and will only provide information about a user in response to a subpoena or other court order”. Says Cohen:
“I’m tall, I’m blond, I’ve been modeling for many years, and people get jealous,” she said. “If I had to deal with everyone who is jealous, I wouldn’t have time to do anything else.”
This case will be tough. It will be almost impossible to identify a blogger who doesn’t reveal his or her identity. Just because they happen to use Blogger, does that mean that their identity should be revealed? Would they be able to stay anonymous if they had used a WordPress blog on their own domain name?
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