Canadian University Has Court Order Google To Reveal Anonymous Critics
from the anonymity? dept
While we sometimes get annoyed at US courts for revealing anonymous commenters, the truth is that courts in the US seem to be much better than just about anywhere else in the world at respecting a right for anonymous comments. Case in point: a bunch of folks have been sending in versions of a story happening up in Canada, where the publicly funded York University got a court to force Google to reveal the names of faculty members who were criticizing the university anonymously via email. Amazingly, the court agreed and ordered the info revealed. Even more ridiculous is what the "complaint" was about. The University had announced the hiring of a new dean and exaggerated that dean's accomplishments. As many of the articles on this story are noting, what better way to create a chilling effect than to try to out anonymous critics. The university claims that this went "beyond free speech" and even though the complaints were supported by the very guy who was hired, the university still insists it was "damaging." I would think that outing your own professors is a lot more damaging than some squabble about over-inflating a new dean's resume.Filed Under: anonymity, canada, criticism
Companies: york university
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TOR
Anyways that is why people created:
- TOR.
- GNUNet(have an anonymous IM)
- OSIRIS Serverless Portal System (makes P2P websites that are virtually indestructible and untraceable)
- I2P (that is a layer)
- Retroshare.
- StealthNet
- Herbivore.
And so many others, this blog is not completely anonymous for example one could still obtain the IP information and track someone, but if you use TOR all those lawsuits become meaningless.
The point being that, abuse is always present so there has to be a natural way to counter that.
ps: particularly I do use TOR to navigate it is so easy nowdays I didn't even had to configure anything the last time a install it.
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Go to hell, Oh sorry, your already there. Enjoy the cold.
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Why not
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Look at how they got their new patsies in these new terrorist cases. FBI provides incentive, material support, and "fake" bombs for these dumb asses. Well except for 1993 WTC bombing where FBI provided REAL bomb....and let it explode.
and then there is the 911 inside job of course.....
so dont go assuming your safe...if its online...its available to those with the resources and intent.
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Most likely the professors will simply get fired.
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Hey, psst!! Before you use the imperative "go back to school", you may want to clean up the punctuation, the capitalization and the grammar in your post. Never mind your strange allusion to the fact that hell has frozen over. Other than that: that was like a great comment, man!
--GJ--
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York= fraud
A Professor
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