Monday, December 19, 2011
Understandable but wrong
Tallbloke, the climate realist blogger whose computers were seized by Brit authorities, has set up a legal defense fund.
I donated to his blog immediately after the seizure was reported, and now I wish I'd waited.
I thought he would want donations to fund his defense against the authorities. Instead, Tallbloke has decided to file a libel suit against another blogger who called him names.
Understandable in terms of preserving your honor, I suppose. But it's a misplaced effort. Other bloggers can't put you in jail. The police can and will put you in jail, and only a predatory and expensive lawyer on your side may be able to help.
Beyond that, the libel suit could misfire. The real problem here is tyrannical authorities serving the bloodthirsty apocalyptic Gaia cult. Bloggers slinging nasty names are not the real problem.
A libel suit is almost certain to start a chain of countersuits that could set a destructive precedent. Once the courts start churning, evil increases exponentially.
Is it smart to shut down the only source of free speech?
I donated to his blog immediately after the seizure was reported, and now I wish I'd waited.
I thought he would want donations to fund his defense against the authorities. Instead, Tallbloke has decided to file a libel suit against another blogger who called him names.
Understandable in terms of preserving your honor, I suppose. But it's a misplaced effort. Other bloggers can't put you in jail. The police can and will put you in jail, and only a predatory and expensive lawyer on your side may be able to help.
Beyond that, the libel suit could misfire. The real problem here is tyrannical authorities serving the bloodthirsty apocalyptic Gaia cult. Bloggers slinging nasty names are not the real problem.
A libel suit is almost certain to start a chain of countersuits that could set a destructive precedent. Once the courts start churning, evil increases exponentially.
Is it smart to shut down the only source of free speech?
Labels: Carbon Cult
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