Internet Issue Blogs
September 8th, 2003 at 6:36 pm by David FarrarTwo recent blog posts worth highlighting.
The first is by David Zanetti, and tells for the first time in public how he got involved in the Brown vs O’Brien internet defamation case. For those not aware of the case, Patrick O’Brien was the CEO of Domainz and he sued for defamation Alan Brown, a member of ISOCNZ which owned Domainz, for comments made on a mailing list. One of the issues in contention was whether O’Brien made a habit of issuing legal threats against people.
The second is by ‘phirate’ and gives his thoughts on the Antispam workshop arranged by InternetNZ.
I don’t agree with everything said, but impressed to see so much thought on the issue and the workshop.
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September 9th, 2003 at 3:11 pm
Why trackbacks are wonderful
Trackbacks are good. People should use them. If they don’t, they end up posting out in space, no solid connection with the things they’re talking about (Assuming, of course, that the topic is trackbackable, but this one is
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Vote:August 5th, 2004 at 1:12 pm
[District Attorneys] learn in District Attorney School that there are
two sure-fire ways to get a lot of favorable publicity:
(1) Go down and raid all the lockers in the local high school and
Vote:confiscate 53 marijuana cigarettes and put them in a pile and hold
a press conference where you announce that they have a street value
of $850 million. These raids never fail, because ALL high schools,
including brand-new, never-used ones, have at least 53 marijuana
cigarettes in the lockers. As far as anyone can tell, the locker
factory puts them there.
(2) Raid an “adult book store” and hold a press conference where you
announce you are charging the owner with 850 counts of being a
piece of human sleaze. This also never fails, because you always
get a conviction. A juror at a pornography trial is not about to
state for the record that he finds nothing obscene about a movie
where actors engage in sexual activities with live snakes and a
fire extinguisher. He is going to convict the bookstore owner, and
vote for the death penalty just to make sure nobody gets the wrong
impression.
– Dave Barry, “Pornography”
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