Censorship rears its ugly head
Just days after dealing with the technical details of the spam attack that nearly crippled this server, we’re facing another kind of backlash - people using it as an excuse for censhorship.
Apparently one of the spam created pages was a link to an Amazon affiliate page selling the work of a “couture jewelry designer” who boasts Oprah Winfrey among her clients and has a blog on Barack Obama’s website where she claims to be a supporter of “civil liberties”. Now, she’s threatened legal action if I use her name on this website, so I won’t. I’ll just say this:
Barack Obama supporter and Oprah Winfrey jeweler has threatened to try to shut down this website.
For what it’s worth though, all three of them are public figures, which makes it pretty hard for her to make the case that my use of her name, like theirs, isn’t constitutionally protected speech that no court would touch.
I responded to her email and let her know that any suit would merit a countersuit and, as it would be a meritless nuisance, a request for monetary sanctions against any lawyer who filed it.
So, if you vote, write-in Mary Carey for President because Obama supporters are a bunch of would be censors.
Tags: Barack Obama, Celebrities, censorship, constitutionally protected speech, First Amendment, liberal hypocrisy, Oprah Winfrey, Political Science, United States
