Having an actual defamation lawyer as one of your co-defendants is a major plus!
Read More...I liked paragraph 4. Warman had sued not only Kate and Kathy, but their website addresses, too. That makes about as much sense as suing a phone number. A URL is simply a place in cyberspace. It’s not a legal entity. It’s just plain old weird that Warman was suing those electrons, and Ashby pointed that out.
Paragraphs 7 and 8 are good points: the nature of the blogosphere is that people can rebut and respond immediately, and blogs incorporate those changes in real time. There is a rough and tumble — even rude — nature to the Internet, but netiquette (and common sense) suggests that if someone complains with merit, those complaints are often incorporated. It’s the whole Web 2.0 thing — interactive.
Warman knows that as well as anyone — what with his extensive experience as a member of the Stormfront online community. When Warman went online in his various neo-Nazi personas, he interacted with other members of Stormfront, correcting them, insulting them, rebutting them, agreeing with them, plotting with them, dissing Jews and gays with them.
Warman knew his way around the Net. But while he was comfortable chatting on neo-Nazi websites, and chastising people for not being white enough, or Nazi enough, for some reason he didn’t deign to write the Internet equivalent to a “letter to the editor” to Kate or Kathy’s sites correcting what he thought were their errors. Why’s that?
Paragraphs 11-15 are weird, too. Warman has sued Kathy for things she didn’t write. If I’m not mistaken, our friend Jay Currie wrote some of those words, but Warman hasn’t sued him. I’m not encouraging anyone to sue Jay, but it’s a little bit odd that Warman has sued Kathy for Jay’s remarks.
