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Thursday, December 22, 2005

Jews for Jesus Sues Blogger

This is kind of interesting. Essentially someone set up a blog called "Jews for Jesus" and made three posts, bashing the Jews for Jesus organization. Note that Jews for Jesus are suing Google, which owns Blogger. You know, if everybody gets this litigious about everything on the net, the courts are going to be gridlocked forever. In my view, this is kind of a variant on the Wikipedia problem-- Blogger/Google served as nothing more than an enabler, which allowed the poster to post his opinion. It seems like a court would have to impose a duty on Google/Blogger to monitor every post on every blog in order for Jews for Jesus to win. In my view, this would be similar to suing Bic for manufacturing the pen that a racist used to write a racist manifesto. Right now, for example, I could start a new blog called "Coke Sucks" and make some false posts about Coke being an evil corporation, etc; Jews for Jesus would have the law impose responsibility on Blogger/Google for my act. Baloney.

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