Liskula Cohen
A former Australian Vogue cover model has won her court battle against Google to obtain the name of an anonymous blogger who called her a “skank” on his blog – and the blog’s author is fighting back.
Liskula Cohen was written up in “Skanks In NYC” last August (the blog has since been taken down). The apparently African-American blogger with a hip-hop flair is seen posing with several model-types, whom he refers to as “skanks”. He claims several of the pics are of him and Cohen dirty dancing. In other posts, he writes, “She’s a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her age, skank”.
Because Google hosted the “Skanks” blog, Cohen sued the Internet giant to reveal its author, after having her initial request denied.
A Federal judge ruled on August 18th that Google must provide what information it still has on the author – which is a name and IP address.
Skankblog Author Rosemary Port
The information Google revealed showed the Skankblog was not written by an African-American man with a hip-hop flair at all – it is an Asian-American woman with a libertarian streak.
29-year-old Rosemary Port plans to sue Google on the basis of First Amendment rights to the tune of US $15 million. “When I was being defended by attorneys for Google, I thought my right to privacy was being protected,” Port told reporters. “But that right fell through the cracks. Without any warning, I was put on a silver platter for the press to attack me. I would think that a multi-billion dollar conglomerate would protect the rights of all its users.”
High-powered attorney Salvatore Strazzullo has taken on Port’s case and is ready to go all the way up to the Supreme Court with it. “Our Founding Fathers wrote ‘The Federalist Papers’ under pseudonyms. Inherent in the First Amendment is the right to speak anonymously. Shouldn’t that right extend to the new public square of the Internet?,” Strazzullo said.
Port says Cohen wound up defaming herself with the high-profile lawsuit which has tied her name to the word “skank” on Internet search engines forever. “This has become a public spectacle and a circus that is not my doing,” Port said.
Cohen’s lawsuit has also fired up Internet hacking group 4Chan, which has created several hundred blogs defaming her and have dubbed her “Liskank.”
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They probably should have done something like “s***k” instead of spelling out the entire word “skank” to describe the s***. That way all parties might have been satisfied.
Why would you think a multibillion dollar conglomerate would protect the rights of users? That’s her first problem. Her second is that she used her real information. IP address can sometimes only narrow it down to an ISP, dependign on the ISP service and if they have dedicated IPs for different users. Then the ISP would need to be taken to court to release the info. But providing her real name to Google was what gave them the information to be given out. Her third problem is that she plans to sue Google. Google was forced to provide the information by a court ruling. If she has a problem with it go after the Federal court system, not the company they ruled on.
What I find disturbing is the fact that she won the case forcing Google to release her true identity. It’s not as if she were a murderer-or terrorist for gosh sakes! There will be no more privacy anymore-as the current administration keeps record of what everyone does. Especially conservatives with morals who oppose the questionable acts being done by it-Methinks some of these have gotten a bit too “full of themselves”
Rosemary Port’s first mistake was thinking anything she posted on the internet could
be private! Her second mistake was wasting time blogging about a former model!
And that was going to accomplish…..what? Especially since she engage in what
amounts to possible libel and slander. The First Amendment does NOT entitle you
to protection when you engage in questionable name calling. Sorry, kiddo, but “privacy” is forfeit when you start down that road whether in print or on the internet! I hope she loses her case. Not to mention what was her agenda in posing as an African-American
male? Very suspect, imho.
Skank? Give me her phone number. She’s kinda cute!!
I agree with the poster who said her first mistake was providing Google with her real name. We live in a surveillance society and there is big money to be made selling your private data so EVERY company is doing it. I applied for service with Sprint and one of the security questions was which of three places did my mother in law live? WTH? I have never had credit accounts with her and I don’t know how we were linked because she’s remarried and has a different last name.
And please, don’t use this as an opportunity to Obama bash. That only masks the scope and the real history of our loss of privacy. Whether or not he’s continuing those policies, people need to know how long this has been going on and the extent of it.
What an unnitigated waste of court time and money..Too many ********** lawyers
Port needs to complain to the federal judge that threatened to take every member of the Google.com board of directors and stick them into the hokey-pin indefinitely unless they coughed up her name. Then said judge will simply point to the U.S. Federal Laws that grant him absolute immunity to any and all kinds of retribution for legal rulings he made in his courtroom. Port will then go home and cry into her pillow, and we’ll all call her a crybaby. Cohen becomes “Liskank,” and Port becomes “Crybaby Port.” What goes around, comes around.
What’s the point of the suit if she really is a skank?
Good for Cohen! This Port woman had better have all the proof to back up her allegations against Ms. Cohen ” She’s a psychotic, lying, whoring”- that she posted for all to see. How pathetic Ms. Port is, pretending to be a man so that her defamatory comments will seem more credible-could she have a few self-esteem and jealousy issues here? The best part is now everyone knows the kind of person that Ms. Port is.