LIskula Cohen's Odd Defamation Lawsuit

So this is interesting. Model Liskula Cohen is suing Google to get them to release th name of the person who owned and posted to a Blogspot presence called Skanks in NYC. skanksnyc.blogspot.com

This Daily News article will give you some of the whys and wherefores of this case.What you don't find there you can find in the Ars Technica piece here.

Now, the lawsuit puzzles me because Skanks in NYC is not what you would call a very popular bog. In fact, the blogger has made only 5 posts at the location, according to the post counter on the site. A quick trip to Quantcast confirmed what I expected -- that the site is not generating much in the way of traffic -- not enough to make data from their panel readable or reliable.



One would presume that comments like this, on a blog visited by four or so people, and I am guessing three visited by accident, might be better left to decay into invisibility in search engines and the like.

Instead, by suing, you will find if you Yahoo her name as I did that there are tons of articles and links -- chiefly relating to the LAWSUIT.

Now, what the blogger said was pretty insulting stuff. I won't repeat it here -- you can visit the link above if you are a prurience lover. But I am surprised at the strength of this reaction to a couple of blog posts. And I have to believe that Google will spend heavily to retain the anonymity of the blogger. That would seem an important principle to fall on a sword for.

But let me ask another question. WHy do you suppose the blogger cared this much about Liskula???

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