this is so fitting:
“Be willing to live in between the right and wrong. The ego needs and desperatly wants to be right and make others wrong. In between right and wrong is a soft messy laughing place where it doesn’t matter” Sark
and herein lies sexymagick, that in between place where good gooey stuff happens
Well, yes, in fact, bloggers do have legal rights
Section 230 (Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code (47 USC § 230) ) says that “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider, which means your readers’ comments, entries written by guest bloggers, tips sent by email, and information provided to you through an RSS feed would all likely be considered information provided by another content provider. This would mean that you would not be held liable for defamatory statements contained in it. (Bloggers Rights)
Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Internet bullies shouldn’t use the law to stifle legitimate free expression…from Blogger’s Rights
In light of recent issues, I take ownership for posting on a forum to ask other webmasters how to deal with someone whom I called a jerk who was harrassing me, I shouldn’t have done and I take ownership of what I said however in order to stop association with me and my blog, he should have stop following me around from forum to forum bullying/pestering me to make sure I did what he requested, as a webmaster of my blog, I deleted the comment as requested, I contacted Bing and Google to have the cached pages removed but constantly bullying me on two different forums only makes the association between him and my blog more current and higher up in the crawls, hopefully within the next few days, the cached pages will be removed from Bing and Google and it will be a distant annoyance. (I’m sure there is a legitmate side to his story and maybe he’ll start his own blog, not mine and not through the multi-forums where I post questions for programming or web help). And for the record, Bing is so relatively new to the whole search engine concept, I had no idea how to do anything on it, I don’t normally use it.
But no matter what, if you have someone harrassing you or bullying you on your blog or on the internet, there are laws to protect you the blogger, we have rights too.
The more and more I think about it, I think I might get my doctorate in information technology, specifically internet related functions or maybe in law, that might be interesting. (and just in case he’s reading this because I have the weird feeling that he is because of strange comments left on forums, dude, I’m months away not years from getting my masters in accounting, not webdesign)
And one other thing, its bugging me, I won’t be able to sleep unless i just post it, webmasters don’t know everything, sometimes we have to ask for help too doesn’t mean that we wanted to be followed around and pestered on the internet.
Bethlehem Steel went out of business because of the decline of the US Steel industry after 146 years, what does that say about our country, that one of the largest steel mills can just disappear because we’re outsourcing to other countries, shifting away from our own country because of cheap foreign labor.
I kind of wonder what people are thinking outsourcing big projects like the bay bridge for materials and labor when our country is having problems, then again maybe that’s why our country is having problems because we’re outsouring to other countries.
The serious side effects caused by Yaz are Heart attacks, Stroke, Deep vein thrombosis (severe blood clotting), Pulmonary embolism (typically a blockage of the main artery of the lung), Sudden death, Gallbladder Disease, Blood Clots, seriously do you want to take a chance and be that one person that dies from taking Yaz? Me personally, I don’t use any birth control medication anymore, I didn’t like the emotional mood-swings associated with taking birth control, its my personal choice.
But I think with all the new drugs out on the market for everything under the sun and for things we didn’t even know existed or had a problem with, most of them have way too many common and serious side effects. If you’re considering taking Yaz, as always, talk to your doctor, read the fine print, check out all the potential side effects before making your choice, check out this site: yaz side effects and then check out the FDA information too
Doctor Patient Confidentiality/Defamation of Character/Misfeasance/Malfeasance/Breach of Fiduciary Duty
So I decided to just delete the whole accutane journal and recreated it, that should stop all google and bing crawls and any association with this guy right? And yet, I decided to post a chit-chat question on Google’s webmaster forum referencing this guy name in full because I was just wanted all association with him gone period (little like foot in the mouth). Little did I know that once you post a chit-chat on google, it gets indexed right away and you can’t delete a chit-chat post if someone has replied to your post. Now the guy is ranked 5 on the google because he responded back to my post and then someone else responded back and used his full name.
Two wonderful web guys responded back – which explained the situation perfectly…
What I don’t see is any “problem”. OK, so your name is XYZ. It’s relatively unusual (compared to mine, say). That doesn’t give you the right to police its use across the whole internet. Who knows how many other XYZ’s there are out theere in the world? Or people who might choose that as a pen-name? Provided they’re not actively trying to pass themselves off as you, I don’t think you have a legal leg to stand on. So your name is on some random junk site. So what? Who cares? Nobody is going to look at that site and assume you typed it in yourself. In fact, nobody is going to look at that site at all. It’s irrelevant. If you’re worried about your online reputation, I’d be way more concerned about how your efforts to deal with this “problem” come across: you look like an egomaniac with way too much time on his hands. Stomping around the internet, threatening people with legal action for taking thy holy name in vain. It’s really not giving a good impression.
and the next one
Gosh, personally I wouldn’t worry about it. Since his name has been posted here, he now has a rank of 5 for this fourm! I’ll request a removal of this thread but I doubt they will do anything.
Anyways, I feel a little better. Maybe google will remove the thread from the chit-chat forum. If not, oh well, I need to get some sleep. Me personally wouldn’t want to use a lawyer who doesn’t know definition of legal terms and stomps around the internet threatening people.
Content of Email: Dear Webmaster
This demand applies to all of your DBA’s and all Internet search engine search results including Google, Bing, Lycos and the like.
You were never given permission to use my name and if you continue using my name, legal action will be taken against you.
Todd B. (ok, so I can’t use his whole name here because of legal stuff and things probably)
My first thought, was who the hell is the person and what is he talking about, so I wrote him back. Apparently he left a comment or someone with his name, left a comment on my accutane journal and his panties all got in a wad that I was using his name, like he could be the only Todd out there or something. My second thought, was oh shit, is it Todd from way back when – but no, that Todd doesn’t talk to me anymore.
He wrote me back and sent me a link to check out on bing
See accutane journal sexy magick:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=todd+bxxxxx&go=&form=QBLH&qs=n (again not the real link but you get the gist, potential liablity issues here)
In short, the law prevents someone from suing yourself for comments made by a user of your site. No one can treat you as if you were the speaker just because you unwittingly provided the platform for the libel. This protection applies even if you edit the comments, so long as you do not change the meaning or otherwise add libelous statements yourself, and is expanded to other torts that might stem from a libel suit including negligent misrepresentation and emotional distress among others. (more information about the law and commenters on blogs, bloggers are protected! and more information here: Blogger Law
Can of chicken has been stretched into 2 meals and its delicious to boot
In other notes of the day, I can home to find my sump pump had stopped working, power outage, my cats stranded in the backyard and the garage flooded. There is now a beam across the patio to the cat door in case the patio floods again and after stepping in 3 feet of water, I got the sump pump back up and running, damn that water was cold.