"Google decided not to appeal and turned over the information late yesterday.
"We sympathize with anyone who may be the victim of cyber-bullying. We also take great care to respect privacy concerns and will only provide information about a user in response to a subpoena or other court order," the company said in a statement."
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After an eight-month court battle, Google handed over the electronic identity of the anonymous blogger who belittled model Liskula Cohen as a "skank" and a "ho" -- it's [email protected].
What they didn't turn over was the blogger's name -- they said they didn't have it -- but Cohen's lawyer said he is confident that the e-mail address and the person's IP address would help smoke out the "skank" skunk.
"I don't know who it is -- yet. Until I do, I'll just keep calling the person 'the anonymous coward,'" said the lawyer, Steven Wagner.
Wagner also is considering a suit against Yahoo to try to smoke out the name as well.
He said the e-mail address was not familiar to his client, a former European Vogue covergirl who became the first -- and only -- person to be featured on the now shuttered "skanks in nyc" blog, which the blogger had set up using Google's Blogger.com feature.
"I would have to say the first-place award for 'Skankiest in NYC' would have to go to Liskula Gentile Cohen," "Anonymous" wrote in one posting on the blog, which featured several photos of Cohen.
"She's a psychotic, lying, whoring ... skank ... Desperation seeps from her soul, if she even has one."
The unnamed blogger's lawyer, Anne Salisbury, argued that Google shouldn't turn over the information because her client was clearly expressing opinion and a reasonable person wouldn't take the information on the site as being fact.
The site was mere "trash talk," she said, and the rantings on it were "like writing on the bathroom wall."
But the judge sided with Wagner, ruling that Google should turn over the e-mail information so that Cohen could sue the person for defamation.
"Under these circumstances, in the context of the blog at issue, the words 'skank,' 'skanky' and 'ho' carry a negative implication of sexual promiscuity" and "are actionable," she wrote.
Google decided not to appeal and turned over the information late yesterday.
"We sympathize with anyone who may be the victim of cyber-bullying. We also take great care to respect privacy concerns and will only provide information about a user in response to a subpoena or other court order," the company said in a statement.
[email protected] did not return an e-mail for comment.
Salisbury said her client plans on remaining anonymous "as long as possible."
"We sympathize with anyone who may be the victim of cyber-bullying. We also take great care to respect privacy concerns and will only provide information about a user in response to a subpoena or other court order," the company said in a statement."
This is amazing as anyone will tell you it dont take much to get a subpoena, the blogger is one of her girlfriends most likely
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08192009...ess_185276.htm
Skank you very much.
After an eight-month court battle, Google handed over the electronic identity of the anonymous blogger who belittled model Liskula Cohen as a "skank" and a "ho" -- it's [email protected].
What they didn't turn over was the blogger's name -- they said they didn't have it -- but Cohen's lawyer said he is confident that the e-mail address and the person's IP address would help smoke out the "skank" skunk.
"I don't know who it is -- yet. Until I do, I'll just keep calling the person 'the anonymous coward,'" said the lawyer, Steven Wagner.
Wagner also is considering a suit against Yahoo to try to smoke out the name as well.
He said the e-mail address was not familiar to his client, a former European Vogue covergirl who became the first -- and only -- person to be featured on the now shuttered "skanks in nyc" blog, which the blogger had set up using Google's Blogger.com feature.
"I would have to say the first-place award for 'Skankiest in NYC' would have to go to Liskula Gentile Cohen," "Anonymous" wrote in one posting on the blog, which featured several photos of Cohen.
"She's a psychotic, lying, whoring ... skank ... Desperation seeps from her soul, if she even has one."
The unnamed blogger's lawyer, Anne Salisbury, argued that Google shouldn't turn over the information because her client was clearly expressing opinion and a reasonable person wouldn't take the information on the site as being fact.
The site was mere "trash talk," she said, and the rantings on it were "like writing on the bathroom wall."
But the judge sided with Wagner, ruling that Google should turn over the e-mail information so that Cohen could sue the person for defamation.
"Under these circumstances, in the context of the blog at issue, the words 'skank,' 'skanky' and 'ho' carry a negative implication of sexual promiscuity" and "are actionable," she wrote.
Google decided not to appeal and turned over the information late yesterday.
"We sympathize with anyone who may be the victim of cyber-bullying. We also take great care to respect privacy concerns and will only provide information about a user in response to a subpoena or other court order," the company said in a statement.
[email protected] did not return an e-mail for comment.
Salisbury said her client plans on remaining anonymous "as long as possible."
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