The model, Google, and ‘Skanks in NYC’
A former cover girl sues to stop a blogger who called her a 'ho.'
Liskula Cohen: Angry over blog posts
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Model Liskula Cohen “is the victim of a vicious blog” attack, said Leisa Barnett in Vogue UK, and she’s fighting back. The blog “Skanks in NYC,” which is hosted by Google-owned platform Blogger.Com, posted photos of the former Australian Vogue cover model and called her a “skank" and a "ho." So Cohen is taking Google to court to force it to reveal the anonymous cyber-bully's name, so she can sue for libel.
Good luck, said John Timmer in Ars Technica. She’ll have to get past “Google and its army of lawyers.” And it's extremely hard to prove defamation in court, especially when you have to get a judge to unmask the blogger first. Bloggers face a “rough” enough of time of it as it is, regularly being arrested for their work—let this one go.
“A line has to be drawn somewhere,” said Robin Wauters in The Washington Post. People can't just trash others for no reason and damage their careers, just because they're doing it anonymously over the Internet. The blog “Skanks in NYC” is “targeting Cohen almost exclusively”—and the “attacks” are “rather personal and vicious.”
It's hard not to sympathize with Cohen, said Right Pundits. Her face was “disfigured in 2008 by a bottle-wielding hotel doorman,” a “violent event” that “reportedly ended her modeling career.” Whatever happens, the overnight fame of this blog, which has “precisely 5 posts in its history,” will be "the stuff of Internet fable.”
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Posted by Danny, Saturday, January 10, 2009, 3:25 pm That sucks! Well. If the accuse is female and has done this out of jealously, then her identity must be revealed. If it happens to be a Male individual, then he must understand that this is not how you describe a lady. That is rude and uncall for it. She seems to be very attractive model, and because of her job requirement, she posess in a fasion to be beattractive to a Vogue Magazine. So that doesn't mean that she is a Skank or a whore. Either waythat is not appropriate, especially when the person is hiding under his/her momas skirt. Or he must be a very unattractive faggot and a cocksucker himself, who must pay his Jhons to have big bang on his stinky, filthy, disease wingnut asshole! Well. How does this cock suking mother fucker likes to be insulted like this.
Posted by Ted, Sunday, January 11, 2009, 8:40 pm Ya Danny... YOU SHOWED HIM/HER! I bet HIM/HER will cry and cry and probably end their life because of your post. Way to go! Was it just me, or did anyone else have parents that taught them "STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES, BUT WORDS WILL NEVER HURT ME!"
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