Outed Blogger Out to Sue Google's Ass

[sageb1]

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/08/23/2009-08-23_outted_blogger_rosemary_port_blames_model_lisku la_cohen_for_skank_stink.html

I personally don't care much for Cohen, who is superficially cute -- as long as the makeup and lighting is right.

However, Rosemary Port is smoking hot.

Here's proof:

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/08/23/alg_rosemary_port.jpg

Pouty lipped Asians are hot, n'est-ce que pas?

[USCTrojanzNo1]

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/08/23/2009-08-23_outted_blogger_rosemary_port_blames_model_lisku la_cohen_for_skank_stink.html

I personally don't care much for Cohen, who is superficially cute -- as long as the makeup and lighting is right.

However, Rosemary Port is smoking hot.

Here's proof:

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/08/23/alg_rosemary_port.jpg

Pouty lipped Asians are hot, n'est-ce que pas?

She made the Disgrasian Hall of Shame (believe it or not).

For those in the dark, the Disgrasian Hall of Shame essentially is a list of East Asians who have been caught in scandals, committed criminal activity, or are accused of just being douches who make East Asians look bad.

http://www.disgrasian.com/2009/08/disgrasian-of-weak-rosemary-port-and.html

I think Rosemary is gorgeous. Definitely a hapa beauty.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

ggggaah too much stupid here. people throwing around terms they have no clue what they mean. Like saying "free speech" to mean "you have no right to dislike what I say, I have freedom of speech, first amendment rah rah rah!" And "fiduciary duty"??? Google have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders, not to random people off the street. A court ordered them to release the name of the user who wrote those comments. What the hell are they supposed to do, disobey a court order to protect a leech who uses their services for free?

IMO the judge was wrong for giving that order (calling someone a skank blatantly doesn't rise to the level of libel/slander because it's a general term of abuse devoid of any assertion of facts) but then I Am Not A Lawyer.

[USCTrojanzNo1]

ggggaah too much stupid here. people throwing around terms they have no clue what they mean. Like saying "free speech" to mean "you have no right to dislike what I say, I have freedom of speech, first amendment rah rah rah!" And "fiduciary duty"??? Google have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders, not to random people off the street. A court ordered them to release the name of the user who wrote those comments. What the hell are they supposed to do, disobey a court order to protect a leech who uses their services for free?

IMO the judge was wrong for giving that order (calling someone a skank blatantly doesn't rise to the level of libel/slander because it's a general term of abuse devoid of any assertion of facts) but then I Am Not A Lawyer.

Neither am i. But the fact that you can be "outed" and get into legal hot water for calling someone a skank is troubling and will have chilling effects on anonymity in the internet and free speech.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

^ Yeah, but that's no where near google's fault like her countersuit tries to make it out to be.

Could be worse. This could be the UK, and then Port would probably be found guilty and fined gazillions of dollars, not just being inconvenienced by spending a few days in court and being talked about in the newspaper.

[Sunflare]

I reading that Rosemary Port was supposed to make an appearance on 'Good Morning America' to make a formal apology (http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/08/26/2009-08-26_model_liksula_cohen_still_not_getting_apology_f rom_blogger_rosemary_port.html) but that was cancelled as she was advised that this may get her into an even worse legal predicament. By apologizing, her defense of not having intention may not stand in court in the civil suit and will make her even more liable for what she did initially.

A source stated that she made those comments in a fit of emotion, rather then logic. What I'm wondering is why she has this grudge with the model in the first place?

[mr. x]

the model chick should thank her since she can ride the attention whoring wave

[haplesshobo]

I think Rosemary is gorgeous. Definitely a hapa beauty.

Which one is supposed to be the model again? I googled up the model, and those pictures were mostly unflattering. Rosemary is way hotter than the white model who was called a skank.

And, not to defend Rosemary too much, but I do think she has a point- nobody would have ever about the website or Rosemary labeling Cohen a skank if Cohen hadn't filed the lawsuit. Now, if you google up Cohen's name, those pics Rosemary labeled skanky are going to be one of the first images you see thanks to Cohen's lawsuit.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

A Google case that we should actually care about for some other reason than besides how hot the plaintiff is.

http://siliconangle.com/ver2/2009/08/31/google-has-failed-the-initial-integrity-litmus-test-will-they-establish-a-pattern-of-cowardice/

Marshall Kirkpatrick points an upcoming touchstone for Google – a case involving “a high-profile Caribbean investigative website called The TCI Journal.” According to Marshall, Google has notified TCI that they intend to send the IP address used to access the site’s GMail account within the next two weeks.

This is troubling to me for a number of reasons. First, and most important, it isn’t as if the TCI Journal is a spoiled NYC rich girl running around calling people “skanks,” and hoping to get away with anonymity. This is a site having been described as devoted to “muckraking journalism,” calling out rampant corruption on the Turks & Caicos Islands, a former British colony.

And an interesting bit about how they laid out their network topology to make things as difficult as possible for governments trying to force them to hand over information about users:

Several years ago, though, I had a few highly placed sources from within Google (that helped me break the story of Android / the “gPhone” before anyone else) – and I remember him describing the organizational structure behind the GMail servers, a structure that was particularly interesting since it seemed to be design to dodge global legal jurisdictions.

According to one of those contacts, the servers were set up globally with the intention to route logging databases through countries that didn’t have extradition treaties with one another. If, for instance, there was a user in Jordan, they would route his login records in a server in the United States so that it would force all requests for information not through the local state courts, but through a foreign nation where no avenues for legal requests existed.

[goodintentions]

Good god, cat fight...

[Sunflare]

http://www.catrescue.com.au/funnypics%20catfight.jpg

KAT FIGHGGGT!!!!!