XRLQ has posted Infotel's threatening demand letter to Justene Adamec and Calblog. In part, it reads:
Unless your message page is taken down by the close of business today, November 14, 2003, Infotel Publications and the individuals being harmed with [sic] file suit against you and your agents for invasion of privacy, misrepresentation, and interference with economic relations. My clients will also seek the imposition of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against you and your agents, in addition to punitive damages for ignoring my prior notice.Attached to that is Infotel's "documentation" of the "actionable items" that appeared in the blog comment area. Such as other people expressing opinions:
"They've created a recording of a conversation we are sure never took place."Now, there are problems with some of the posts -- anonymity seems to bring out the worst in some people -- but any open forum will have speakers like that. To avoid that would mean that blogdom would have to apply "speech codes" to all posts. "Frell that", as Chiana would say. One does need to stop personal data (e.g. home addresses, creditcard numbers) from being posted, or delete such as soon as possible (and Justene was ready to do that), but this isn't the issue here. The most objectionable post (to me) seems to have been an antisemitic comment. I'm sure that's a first for blogdom. Not.