RE: A Constitutional Convention for the online world
Great post gentleman. And great recipe.
It is interesting that so many posts on this topic centered around what
can legally be "gotten away with" with respect to anonymous blogging. I
am encouraged however that there seems to be a rising public
awareness and outrage to the downside of the privilege of anonymous
speech, typically as it relates to the Internet.
I have found that most people, including judges, can be very dismissive
with respect to these types of lawsuits suggesting that they are petty
and should not be clogging up the legal system. However I submit that,
until somebody has personally, or through someone they love,
experienced the debilitating anguish that comes from being at the
receiving end of a malicious and relentless Internet smear campaign,
they simply cannot relate to the pain it causes.
I am passionately committed to raising public awareness to this 21st-
century pandemic which is executed by the immoral minority, but
afforded a very loud voice through the accessibility and universal
availability of blogging technologies. I like to tell "future victims" of
Internet libel that their careers, job prospects, family, and emotional
well-being can be devastated by a targeted Internet smear campaign by
an unknown blogger as thoroughly as a farmer who has his livestock
destroyed and barns and fields burned.
I have walked this fiery road personally, it was vocationally and
emotionally debilitating. My antagonist has subsequently been jailed for
unrelated crimes which seems to be distracting the individual from
labeling me. Fortunately I was able to turn adversity into opportunity
and now earn a modest living assisting Internet libel victims and their
attorneys. However, I would much rather get a real job if the public
developed what I would like to call a "repulse reflex" for the garbage that
is posted on the Internet.
Respectfully submitted, Michael Roberts. Anonymous blogger bounty
hunter.
Www.Rexxfield.com
