Geist says there are likely to be more lawsuits
against bloggers as blogs become more mainstream.
Not exact matches
«The right way to think about this is that the energy expenditure provides a level of protection
against attacks — it establishes a price floor, currently in the many millions, to launch a 34 percent or 51 percent attack [where an attacker can block transactions and double spend bitcoins
as they please],» Emin Gun Sirer, a Cornell professor and
blogger at Hacking Distributed, explained in an email.
There has been strong pushback
against the EFF initiative from the content industry in the US, and from others, such
as IP
blogger Neil Turkewitz.
As blogger Tyler Clark put it, «When you put out a call on Facebook for people verbally attack «effeminate anatomically male» men, I find myself back in high school — shoved
against a locker, with the bullies calling me a faggot.»
«A Christian
blogger's rant
against the soteriology of Jacobus Arminius entitled «Let's Rid the World of Armenians» has been mistaken by area Armenians
as a racist threat.
Gabriella Schneider is the
blogger behind Beyond the Bite where she shares AIP Paleo recipes, articles on health and the human body,
as well
as her personal experiences fighting back
against chronic Lyme Disease.
When I have on occasion visited those sites or observed people like yourself on here who are likely normally on those sites, I tend to feel the comments come across
as a kind of
bloggers version of pinning someone up
against the wall and shouting in their face to literally bully them into agreeing with you.
Washington (CNN)-- The Republican National Committee has cancelled a fundraiser with conservative
blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is under fire for promoting an edited video that falsely portrays former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod
as having boasted about discriminating
against a white farmer looking for her assistance.
First Lady Melania Trump can move ahead with a defamation lawsuit
against a Maryland
blogger who published claims that Trump worked in the past
as a «high - end escort» and suffered a «mental breakdown» during the campaign in part because of those allegations, a judge ruled on today.
Sayeeda Warsi wrote to Grant Shapps, her successor
as party chairman, in January to demand that action be taken
against Mark Clarke, a youth organiser for the party, who allegedly bullied 21 - year - old political
blogger Elliott Johnson before he killed himself in September.
The Peoples Democratic Party has faulted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for arresting popular
blogger, Mr. Abubakar Sidiq Usman, otherwise known
as Abusidiqu, over a recent report he published
against the Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.
But it turns out that Taylor's source is none other than hapless climate
blogger Steven Goddard, who recently leveled incoherent and unsupported false accusations
against James Hansen and NASA's Gistemp record,
as well
as NOAA.
I've been «failing»
as a style
blogger for 4 years now, but I keep on trucking, and if that isn't a lesson in pursuing your passions
against all common sense... well, what else can it be.
For their own inane reasons, movie critics — from professionals for the dailies to
bloggers wearing footed pajamas
as they tap away in their rec rooms — turned in mass
against Shyamalan several years ago like lemmings catching wind of a nearby cliff.
As the founder, along with leading public education advocate Diane Ravitch, of what is called the Education
Bloggers Network, I've had the tremendous honor of working with, getting to know and regularly reading the writing of more than 230 education bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformers
Bloggers Network, I've had the tremendous honor of working with, getting to know and regularly reading the writing of more than 230 education
bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformers
bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and
against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformers.»
In her piece, Katherine references (but does not link to in order to avoid helping the
blogger with traffic to her site,
as Good e-Reader likewise will not) an article that circulated almost virally last weekend, a piece that named thirty prominent, best - selling self - published authors; while specifically targeting author Melissa Foster, who is now pursuing legal action
against the
blogger, the post by someone who claims to have spent two years «working undercover» at Fiverr names authors Hugh Howey, Blake Crouch, Amanda Hocking, and several others
as those who purchased bulk book reviews.
I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and
bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon
against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit
as necessary for reaching our human potential
as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.
The general criticism leveled
against bloggers went along the lines of, «How dare these amateurs fancy themselves
as writers.»
In previous posts, we discussed climate
blogger Steve McIntyre's scurrilous accusations of «cherrypicking»
against UK dendrochronolgist Keith Briffa, and summarized a a quick technical critique of McIntyre's work by a dendrchronologist known
as Delayed Oscillator.
Barry Woods A coauthor of this paper M Marriott write
as the
blogger — Watching the Deniers — Whilst researching this paper, Marriot was also writing article about LOG12 in defence of Lewandowsky et al (LOG12) and articles
against the critics of LOG12.
We do have one of the lawyer - plaintiffs in the suit
against Avvo, John Henry Browne,
as a guest, along with two well - known
bloggers, Carolyn Elefant and Denise Howell.
But now,
as Professor Bainbridge and many other
bloggers report, another law firm, this time Nashville firm King and Barlow, has drawn the ire of other
bloggers for threatening a libel action
against blogger Kat Coble unless she removes something that offended one of the firm's clients.
Popular Malaysian political
blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin (known in the blogosphere
as RPK) was ordered to reveal his sources for three articles alleging that attorney Muhammad Shafee Abdullah fabricated sodomy charges
against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, the Associated Press reports.
He thus didn't decide whether
bloggers are entitled to be treated the same
as other journalists, but concluded that in any event the subpoena
against the service provider — which the service provider isn't contesting — is constitutionally permissible.
As the New York Times reported earlier this week, publisher and conference promoter O'Reilly proposed the code in the wake of death threats
against blogger Kathy Sierra.
As the Electronic Frontier Foundation blog Deep Links reports, former rabbi Mordecai Tendler had filed suit in Santa Clara Superior Court
against the «John Doe»
bloggers after they wrote about allegations that he had sexually abused women he had counseled.
You don't want to blog about your life (lifestyle
blogger), unless you are big time championing an issue such
as discrimination
against women or people of color in the law.
Those interested in following the developments might look at a wiki established
as part of the Censorship Wikia,
Bloggers Against Censorship.
Several days ago, the
blogger Phil Wolff, on Skype Journal, went through a series of hypothetical remedies that the courts could have required of Microsoft, covering areas like interoperability but also other areas of consumer rights, such
as the fact that Skype in its terms of service apparently doesn't allow users to file class action lawsuits
against the company.