Liskula Cohen vs Skanks of New York: IV
p2pnet news view P2P:- The saga of Canadian model Liskula Cohen rolls on.
She was able to get a US court to persuade Google, staunch defender of user privacy, to reveal the name of a blogger she claimed had defamed her online via Skanks in NYC.
Enter Rosemary Port (right), 29, creator of Skanks in NYC and a Fashion Institute of Technology student, who told the New York Daily News that Cohen has only herself to blame.
“This has become a public spectacle and a circus that is not my doing,” said Port, whose “Skanks in NYC” site branded the 37-year-old Cohen an “old hag.”
“By going to the press, she defamed herself,” Port says in the story.
And now it looks as though Gargle is about to be dragged into it.
Acording to the Daily Post, Port is, “furious at Google for revealing her identity” to the extent she now plans to file a $15 million federal lawsuit it.
“When I was being defended by attorneys for Google, I thought my right to privacy was being protected,” Port says. “But that right fell through the cracks. Without any warning, I was put on a silver platter for the press to attack me. I would think that a multi-billion dollar conglomerate would protect the rights of all its users.”
Riiiight.
Gogle, “breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity,” her “high-powered attorney Salvatore Strazzullo” will claIm,k says the story, quoting him as promising he’ll take the case, “all the way to the Supreme Court”.
Inherent in the First Amendment is the right to speak anonymously, he says, adding, “Shouldn’t that right extend to the new public square of the Internet?”
Riiiight.
Stay tuned.
rolls on – Liskula Cohen vs Skanks of New York: III, August 20, 2009
New York Daily News – Outed blogger Rosemary Port blames model Liskula Cohen for ’skank’ stink, , August 23, 2009
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August 24th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
So basically, according to her, it’s okay to violate others’ First Amendment rights, but not her own?…
As for her looks, if the picture in the previous post, and the images Google gave of her, are anything to go by, she’s pretty much the archetype of an “old hag”, at least as far as I can trust my own eyes. In this country I’m living in (Finland) it’s no crime to say an ugly person is ugly, after all, it’s called an observation.
It would be a completely different matter should someone here start accusing someone else to be a murderer, a child molester, swindler, prostitute, or something similar, without some evidence to back it up, that could end up real bad… But stating a mere observation? Nope.
August 24th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Well this is new to me. I think it’s something only people with low self-esteem care about. You could call me a child molester all you want. It doesn’t make it true. In my opinion this just shows that people will sue for anything. Unless the person has proof they just look like a fool and only hurt themselves. Just like everyone who says that Obama isn’t a natural born citizen of the US, doesn’t make it true and only shows their ignorance.
August 26th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Welcome Rosemary to the real world. Next time, try TOR.
August 26th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Google followed a court order…. the lawsuit is going nowhere. However, she should have been given an opportunity to appeal the decision before it was carried out. There may be some recourse there, but I’m not sure.