that he could put up his own website/blog and do the same to the person who is slandering him?
Are you saying that he has no defense? at all?


sorry if dorky questions

obviously not a lawyer!

If your desire is to keep information away from people, starting an internet war of words is not going to accomplish that.

Then there is the question of whether or not what you say is libelous and could get you sued.

The best that can be hoped for ususally is that whatever it is up there on the internet will be buried by the shear magnitude of the net; and hope that the public's short attention span and memory carry the day.

(still not a PR agent)

I had thought of that after I had posted; what a way to start a flame war.

Do I have a case to force someone to remove personal info about me from a blog or sue for damages?  It may be true but damaging to both personal and business life.  Any advice?

that or something that is copyright, you can't.  Even if the website/blog owner takes it down, there are plenty of search engine sites which cache older pages and keep them available.  Basically, if its out there for a moment, its out there forever.

takes it down you can ask Google to remove the cached page.

I stumbled my way through it when I had to kill my other personna and clean up all I could find.  I removed 657 cached pages so far.

Here is the link where you start:  http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70896&hl=en

Toward the bottom of the page is "Submit a URL removal request."  That's the instructions.

Just my 2¢.
Hugs,
JaneDoe

recognize a cause of action (grounds for suit) called public disclousre of private facts/invasion of privacy. Maybe you could hint at such a suit if the poster refuses to remove your info?

if it's true.

if people don't like the truth about themselves, they need to reflect upon how to change themselves instead of trying to change the truth.

As fans of Spiderman already know.  Slander is verbal.

But, there is a tort called Defamation of Character whereby if you make damaging statements about a person for no other reason than to defame said person, you can be sued.

A classic example is to out a gay person for no other reason than personal vendetta.

So, think before you speak, or write.

(still not a lawyer)

Google Jesus. See all the shit people say about him. Then consider whether you are treated better or worse. Finally, promise yourself never to look at that stuff about you again.

Or hire someone who specializes in burying bad news. There are companies that will do that for you if you want to spend the money (meaning it is costing you money). Basically what they do is build enough content about you so that a search will not show the bad stuff until you get to the third or fourth page. Since no one ever goes past the second page, and less than 5% of people even go that far, the blog will have effectively disappeared.

Yes, there are other solutions, but these two will work. You just have to pick one.

Zig

How I wish that were true. I wrote a blog/story for a year on yahoo. It disappeared and NOONE has ever been able to find it. It had my greatest collection and love story. I have posed a reward to many if anyone could find it. don't bother the waybackmachine didnt collect it. it just isn't there. PM me if you can find it. reneemyrenee

most people hate to look at themselves and see anything that they don't think is lovely.

boy is that true
someone went through and removed all 100 pages that referred to me once. It was weird. But my webmaster started up all the links for me again

cute