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Dealing with Cyber Abuse in Australia
Dealing with Cyber Abuse in Australia Since I won my defamation case against Google over Ripoff Report I have been the recipient of a significant amount of abuse and defamation by Ripoff Report, the website Techdirt and by others. This is one example: Although pursuing legal action was absolutely not a life path I would have […]
Ed Magedson, Ripoff Report and Darren Meade: Obstruction of Justice
Xcentric Ventures v Smith: A Failed Attempt to Prevent a Criminal Investigation In the second half of 2014 an Iowa district attorney, Ben Smith, filed criminal charges against Darren M Meade of Orange County, CA in the USA. These charges, including witness tampering and extortion, resulted from a protracted period of defamation on Ripoff Report of […]
Ed Magedson, Ripoff Report and Darren Meade Sued for $USD60 Million
Pitman v Xcentric Ventures, LLC, et al 2017 The extensive damage inflicted upon individuals, families and businesses by the Ripoff Report ‘business model’ of extortion over a period of almost two decades is well documented (mouse over ‘view’ to read the comments). One of the victims of a protracted campaign of reputation assassination and attempted extortion by […]
Abusive Comments on Techdirt
Abusive Comments on Techdirt This blog post contains SOME examples of the abusive and defamatory comments on Techdirt.com. From June 2015, when media on my forthcoming trial for defamation against Google was published, Techdirt regular commentators made it clear that I was going to be subjected to vitriol and ridicule. I asked Masnick and Cushing on […]
Hack into the Australian Government Department of Human Services? Solved!
Hack into the Australian Government of Human Services Complaint: Solved Update: 1 May 2017 The Department of Human Services called me today and investigated. It was NOT a hack: It was an attempt to intimidate me, along with other messages sent from Techdirt.com devotees. It worked! The government investigator identified two of my tweets thanking […]
More Abuse From Techdirt
More Abuse From Techdirt Techdirt ridicules and abuses people using the excuse of Free Speech. But it does not practice what it preaches. Techdirt regularly hides or ‘moderates’ (they are not posted) any comments critical of Masnick or Techdirt or that does not fit with THEIR view of free speech: In addition to 18 months of […]
Dr Shiva Ayyadurai sues Techdirt and Mike Masnick for Defamation
Dr Shiva Ayyadurai Sues Techdirt & Mike Masnick for Defamation Dr V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai, the inventor of email successfully sued Gawker.com in 2016. This was a significant victory for ordinary digital citizens who have their lives decimated by websites that masquerade as online news or consumer advocacy forums but, in fact, are profiting from […]
ABC Australia Removes Article Written by Sunita Bose, Policy Director of Change.org
ABC Australia Removes Article Written by Sunita Bose, Policy Director, Change.org The purpose of this post is to thank the ABC Australia for removing a distressing, defamatory and derogatory ‘article’ written on The Drum (now closed) website by a person called Sunita Bose after I won on liability for defamation against Google Inc. Bose’s article was removed […]
Dr Andres Guadamuz, Sussex Uni, Technollama, Storify by Dr Janice Duffy
Dr Andres Guadamuz: Sussex University & Technollama Since Dr Andres Guadamuz is so fond of Storifying his horror that someone actually stands up to him and his cruel attempts to vilify a plaintiff who has been emotionally decimated, I thought that I should learn to Storify. So I decided to try my hand at Storify. […]
Ripoff Report DO Remove Webpages and Posts
Ripoff Report DO Remove Webpages and Posts Magedson will remove webpages about himself that ‘sneak’ through the ‘mommies’. These are the women that ‘moderate’ the reports before they are published. Try finding the webpages in these screenshots on the website. They don’t exist because Magedson has removed them! […]
Google and Ripoff Report Lose Court Cases
Google and Ripoff Report Lose Court Cases Google An Australian man, Michael Trkulja, was awarded AUD$200,000 damages (plus interest) in a defamation action against Google this week. This video from the ABC shows Michael discussing his David and Goliath victory. Google cited two interlocutory decisions in the UK to support their failed non obstante argument that is was not responsible even […]