Friday, July 18, 2008
Holding the Cyberazzi accountable
A while back I blogged about cyberbullying in a post I called Beware the Cyberazzi. My post was largely motivated by my knowledge of a few sites that are dedicated to sabotaging the character and credibility of people in this community.
Today, Michael Geist has reported that a B.C court has ordered an Australian man to pay $179,000 in damages for posting hundreds of libelous comments on the Internet over a period of four years.
In an effort to support the community, Bob and I plan to interview an expert on cyberstalking and cyberbullying (hopefully a police officer) for an early episode of season three four of the Canadian Podcast Buffet.
July 18th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I’m looking forward to this, hopefully we can get an experienced authority to discuss this with us..
By the way, that’ll be season 4,not 3!
(I know!)
July 19th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I dont know if you guys already came across this but if you are going to be talking about cyberstalking you should take a look at HumanBook (www.HumanBook.com) New website that launched that has published the personal contact information of 200 million people AND lets people publish personal information and create profiles for non-users… I recommend you go on and set your privacy settings for yourself before someone else does.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:47 am
I think this is tremendous. Some people oft hide behind a keyboard, or even sometimes a microphone, and are truly nasty to others. This can lead to even more nasty crap for sure. I have been the recipient of such umm, call it commentary, and it hurts like hell. It is difficult in those cases to ‘just ignore it’ as one is often told. Good on both of you.