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Department of False Equivalencies
"I'm ready to take this all the way to the Supreme Court... Our Founding Fathers wrote 'The Federalist Papers' under pseudonyms. Inherent in the First Amendment is the right to speak anonymously. Shouldn't that right extend to the new public square of the Internet?"
That's what attorney Salvatore Strazzullo told the New York Daily News about his client, Rosemary Port. Last week Port was revealed by a court order as the blogger behind "Skanks in NYC," a defunct Google-hosted blog comprised of unflattering images and statements about model Liskula Cohen. Cohen sued Google to release the email address of the person who registered the offending Blogspot site and won, eventually revealing Port as her online tormentor. Port is reportedly planning to sue Google for $15 million.
It's been a long time since we took a social studies course, but we're pretty sure the Federalist Papers didn't include the phrase "psychotic, lying, whoring ... skank."
Matt Haber is the media blogger for Portfolio.com.
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