[Foundation-l] Our first defamation case?

Michael Bimmler mbimmler at gmail.com
Fri May 2 10:33:46 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/2 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com>:
>
>
> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:53 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/05/02
>  >  >
>  >  >  We have EFF onside, so CDA Section 230 protection is probably going to
>  >  >  see us right on this one.
>  >
>  >
>  >  http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/wikimedia/BauerSecondAmendedComplaint.pdf
>  >
>  >  page 26:
>  >  "Plaintiff has informed [Wikimedia Foundation] that the statements
>  >  about her are false and defamatory but [Wikimedia Foundation] has
>  >  refused to remove the statements despite the fact that Brian Lamb the
>  >  founder of [Wikimedia Foundation] has stated publicly that his website
>  >  is accountable and that mistakes are removed in minutes".
>  >
>  >  Uh, right, "Brian Lamb the founder of [WF=Wikimedia Foundation]?"
>  >  Jimmy, is this your new alias? Or has someone failed on his research
>  >  here pretty badly?
>
>  I think that's probably the worst bit of false reporting about
>  Wiki(m|p)edia I've ever seen - and I've seen some very bad reporting!
>

I was just wondering whether it might be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Lamb
this guy who founded C-SPAN...maybe someone mistook us for C-SPAN :p

Michael


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