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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Two female students at Yale Law School say they were defamed by repeated postings they considered sexually threatening and in their subsequent lawsuit, named a male student, states The Boston Globe.
The case isn’t unprecedented, “but it is a reminder that anonymous postings on the freewheeling Internet can be traced, legal analysts say,” states the story.
It goes on to quote George Washington University Law School professorDaniel Solove as saying, “A lot of people don’t really think about that. I do think it’s going to have an effect on what people say. It’s one of the most prominent cases of its type.”
Posts by other defendants, “included remarks about one plaintiff’s breasts and a claim that women with the same first names ’should be raped’,” says the story, going on »»»
“Some postings discussed the women’s family backgrounds and supposed sexual exploits while invoking racially and sexually charged slurs.
Some people who posted the Web items threatened to rape one of the women and attempted to start rumors that one of the women had died or committed suicide, according to the lawsuit.
The anonymous posters also started a website devoted to “rating” female law students from around the country. Some participants in the contest sent photos of one of the women without her permission, according to the lawsuit.
The judge hearing the case has agreed to let the women proceed under pseudonyms because of their fears of further harassment, says The Boston Globe, adding no trial date has been set.
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The Boston Globe - Yale students name alleged harasser in Web libel suit, August 7, 2008
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August 8th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Go ahead ladies! Sue the crap ou of these bastards and couards!
I stand with yoiu on this one 100%! The hell with these animalistic pseudo-men!
Real men do not treat women like that because real men are hardwired to protect women and children. I am.
Even though I understand that women do not need me for protection they can count me as an ally and we can flush out these parasited together.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:57 am
I agree, I hope to see these anonymous posters get nailed to the wall for making reckless posts like that.