tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post115075680684524816..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1150830684110857972006-06-20T14:11:00.000-05:002006-06-20T14:11:00.000-05:00A.I., I think it's time to ban someone and/or start posting IP addresses.<BR/>"anonymous" needs to understand that it's impossible to be so online.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1150826002860973822006-06-20T12:53:00.000-05:002006-06-20T12:53:00.000-05:00For a bunch of lawyers and wanna be lawyers, perhaps you all should heed your own advice and be quiet. I suggest you let others argue the defamation issue because the more you defend yourselves the more you reveal your potential malice behind the content that you have both incited and actually posted or allowed to remain posted on your site. Further, yes truth is only a defense, but if someone can carry their burden it will then shift to you to defend the truth of the matters you have asserted on your blogs. My question for you is this: are you comfortable with that? Your blogs are either a site for people to come to vent and rumor and can't be held accountable for content.. or your sites are accountable and you stand by them as the truth. In that case, ethics and journalistic standards apply to your blogs (especially seeing as you all want press credentials). My thinking is you can't have it both ways and must pick one. Perhaps it is nearing time for some lawyers and wanna be lawyers to get lawyers as some are becoming drunk by their power and may soon be sobered up by lawsuits. This discussion of First Admendment is ridicuous as there is no right for people to sit at work and be on the blog unless it is a part of their job duty. TDW's attempt at a legal arguement is really misplaced. Ask the Enquirer if they have EVER had to pay up. Yes, they have! Everyone CAN BE reachable...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1150824679719382502006-06-20T12:31:00.000-05:002006-06-20T12:31:00.000-05:00The suggestion to kindly ask that a post/comment be removed is a good one - in theory. If you are on the receiving end of spiteful posts to blog/web sites, it is difficult to keep your emotions in check. Ask any one of us who has been on that receiving end. If Eric Miller's Advance America had posted a hateful missive about a gay rights activist, for example, I just don't see that activist calling Mr. Miller and nicely asking him to remove the post. However, leaving our emotions at the door in any and all circumstances in order to handle the issue with diplomacy and tact is something to which we can all aspire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1150814150417048052006-06-20T09:35:00.000-05:002006-06-20T09:35:00.000-05:00Not sure why anonymous is comparing apples and oranges. Things that are clearly crimes should be reported.<BR/><BR/>In TDW's case, and in practically every other that I've seen online, the statements never fit the required proofs to rise to the level of defamation, and would never hold up. And you have to consider that website owner isn't legally responsible for what is posted in comments, any more than a building owner would be liable for grafitti scrawled on the side of their building.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1150772762739589462006-06-19T22:06:00.000-05:002006-06-19T22:06:00.000-05:00Anonymous 9:36--I can't speak for TDW, but I'm aware of comments that were promptly removed there that were clearly problemmatic. I have removed numerous posted comments from this blog in the past, which are usually always posted anonymously. <BR/><BR/>I'm with anonymous 10:00--I don't know how you arrive at the talk of rape and incest in the context of this discussionGary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1150772421400269822006-06-19T22:00:00.000-05:002006-06-19T22:00:00.000-05:00WOW. I didn't get that at all. I thought the post was about asking a blogger to remove a comment politely BEFORE sicking a lawyer on them.<BR/><BR/>How we got to rape, and incest, I don't know!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1150771010704806512006-06-19T21:36:00.000-05:002006-06-19T21:36:00.000-05:00So which of TDW's targets do you think she would have responded to if she had been asked to remove comments from her blog? NONE. <BR/><BR/>Let me take your abusurd suggestion to 'let it be' a bit further...what you are suggestion would be the same as the following suggestions:<BR/><BR/>Women should not report rapes - just keep it to themselves because if they report the rape then everone will know they've been 'dirtied' and it may just end up a he said/she said case in which one's personal life is exposed. <BR/><BR/>Children should not tell anyone about daddy diddling with their thing or daddy asking them to diddle with his? The person the child tells might not believe them.<BR/><BR/>If falsely accused of a crime just go along with being falsely charged and convicted because it's just easier to go along with the charges than to stand up for the truth?<BR/><BR/>Obviously, I disagree strongly with your suggestion - it has a 'blackmail' smell to it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com