Model Sues Google Because Some People Are Just So Mean

from the suck-it-up dept

Wed, Jan 7th 2009 1:42am — Mike Masnick

I still haven't quite figured out why people think that it's illegal to be a jerk, but there's just some part of people's brains that makes them believe that if they don't like something, it simply must be illegal. A model named Liskula Cohen is apparently really, really peeved that there are some mean people online who have been making fun of her, and she's suing Google to get the company to reveal the identity of those mean, mean jerks. Of course, in doing so, Cohen has only called that much more attention to the fact that some random anonymous internet losers think she's "skanky."

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Filed Under: anonymity, defamation, liskula cohen
Companies: google

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Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2009 @ 2:54am

i for one had never heard of her im pretty sure most if not all techdirt readers will agree.

perhaps an attempt for self publicity?
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Analmouse Coward, 7 Jan 2009 @ 3:07am

Who's gone and read the blog then?
I've now read about this bloody woman in over four blogs this morning, I feel dirty but i couldn't help myself, its like watching a train crash, the morbid curiousity is just too much for me. i'll repent later.

LiveandLove (loopyhoopy ho) is retarded in thinking she can make a difference, just makes her look like a fool!. has she never seen the interwebs insult someone before?
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Michael Whitetail, 7 Jan 2009 @ 3:09am

Re:
Indeed, in this case which is just about some random guys being retards, all the media exposure of her lawsuit garentees at least some people will go and look her up online.

In this case, even bad publicity is better than none since people knowing of the original retards opinions does nothing to hurt her at all.

I for one will not be looking her up, and I hope other techdirt readers follow this example.
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August West, 7 Jan 2009 @ 3:12am

Skank
Liskula Cohen? She's a skank
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Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2009 @ 3:33am

I'm not sure what a shank is, but she does seem a bit shanky. I also heard she's a raciest and and works part-time at the local Denny's. That's just what I heard.
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DS, 7 Jan 2009 @ 4:00am

Re:
Well, I have heard that she's skanky.

But that's the extent of it.
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Chrisinsocalif, 7 Jan 2009 @ 4:03am

Poor Girl
Sounds like she got sand in her vagina.
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Don't sue me bro!, 7 Jan 2009 @ 4:04am

Skank
I'll bet she wishes she was a man. Then she wouldn't be such a skank. At least that's my view.

Ken
www.kenstech.com
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Liskula Cohen, 7 Jan 2009 @ 4:10am

Re: Skank
I am not! What is your address? I am going to sue you!
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eleete, 7 Jan 2009 @ 4:21am

Re: Re: Skank
Why would she need that, she'll just sue TechDirt. Afterall, it's their fault too, now.
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Me, 7 Jan 2009 @ 4:38am

My opinion
It is my opinion Liskula Cohen has her chops on the offbeat.
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Anonymous Monarch, 7 Jan 2009 @ 5:27am

Re: Who's gone and read the blog then?
Don't bother, she looks like an anorexic she-male.
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Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2009 @ 5:41am

You don't have to do something "illegal" to be sued. Actually, to be sued you have to do something "wrongful." If you do something "illegal" you're a target for criminal prosecution. It's two different things (the last time I checked).
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Greg, 7 Jan 2009 @ 5:51am

Re: Re: Who's gone and read the blog then?
Agreed.
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Shadow, 7 Jan 2009 @ 6:15am

Re: Re: Skank
Wow, sue someone for being an ass, you're fukin stupid. Idiocy on such a level simply deserves a good bitchslap.
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Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2009 @ 6:20am

She sure doesn't float my boat but she has the same sort of look as Paris Hilton. It is someone's definition of beauty that has nothing to do with mine.

Liskula Cohen was slightly more attractive before she got hit across the chops with a vodka bottle.
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asdf, 7 Jan 2009 @ 6:34am

I won't be looking her up.
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DS78, 7 Jan 2009 @ 6:53am

Uh Oh!
Some skank has learned to work the Google on her internet machine.

Let the lawsuits commence.
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Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2009 @ 6:55am

Re: Re:
It's not libel if it's true.
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Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2009 @ 7:23am

Liskula Cohen? That ain't no woman! It's a man, baby!
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Dave Barnes, 7 Jan 2009 @ 7:28am

Given these photos.
1. http://skanksnyc.blogspot.com/

2. skank = One who is disgustingly foul or filthy and often considered sexually promiscuous. Used especially of a woman or girl.

1 + 2 = she has no case according the average moron in a hurry
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Overcast, 7 Jan 2009 @ 7:35am

I heard somewhere she's a skanky ol' hag - but it could just be rumor...

Could say she is - and she can sue me, can't get blood from a turnip afterall, but I had just heard about it, didn't say it.

Of course, I would have never known that she's a vindictive bitch until I read this!

NO MORE umm.. whatever her name was, PORN FOR ME ANYMORE!!

lol
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Nick, 7 Jan 2009 @ 8:23am

Re: Re: Re: Skank
I'm not fukin stupid. Say it again and I'll sue!
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Yenta4renta, 7 Jan 2009 @ 8:24am

Bow wow
Yenta just went to look at this broad. Skanky is kind. She should quit while she's still just considered skanky. I'll wager she will be the type to eat her young, or be a parking ticket maven.
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Nick, 7 Jan 2009 @ 8:26am

Re:
What look is that?
The "Nobody home" look?
Or the "I will show you mine if you show me attention" look?
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WiseGuy, 7 Jan 2009 @ 8:30am

Implications:
So wait - what this model is basically saying is that google is responsible for 9/11, the terrible tsunami ... hell even WWII! ... any why did I reach this conclusion? .... cos' i've googled all those terms and i got results ... the bastards !!
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did some looking, 7 Jan 2009 @ 9:17am

Heh
Turns out that this is the same "model" that got into a drink tossing episode with Samir Dervisevic.
After which a bouncer at the bar they were in smashed a bottle and cut up Samir Dervisevic pretty badly back in 1970.
So it turns out she is a instigating skank as well!
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James, 7 Jan 2009 @ 9:33am

If it were illegal to be a jerk...
...Rush Limbaugh would be locked up for life w/Ann Coulter and he'd be forced to suck her c**k every day.
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Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2009 @ 9:34am

The word libel immediately comes to mind and it is not at all unreasonable to assert that the blog is libelous. Whether or not she would prevail in a lawsuit for libel depends upon the evidence presented to the court, but she could face a very difficult uphill struggle if she is deemed a "public figure".
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Michael Langford, 7 Jan 2009 @ 10:32am

whatever
How can she prove she's not a skank?
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Dan, 8 Jan 2009 @ 12:44am

Check pic #4, is she the top lady or bottom lady?
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