Techdirt removes spammers "private info" from Comments
After receiving several lawsuit-threatening voicemail messages, in response to a prior post concerning a NY Times "spammers" article, Techdirt has removed the private info, concerning the "email marketers" in the article, from their posts. The voicemails complained that Techdirt was responsible for the "private info" being posted in their open (and sometimes anonymous) comments forum. Note: the info was removed from Techdirt not because of the threat of a lawsuit, but because they don't think anyone should get spammed.
Not without a sense of irony, Techdirt noted that "people who make their living sending information to people [that] haven't requested it get bothered when the same thing is done to them."
Techdirt Supports Everyone's Right Not To Be Bothered
Interestingly, Techdirt would prefer not to have removed it and in fact a judge has thrown out a spammer's demand to have his business address and phone number (which are also his home address and phone number) removed from the Web.
Ruling Backs Anti-Spam Activist [WaPo] [via Boing Boing]
Update: "It appears that the spam company that was profiled in last week's NY Times, which resulted in Techdirt being threatened with a bogus lawsuit have been taken offline by their ISP." [TechDirt]
Not without a sense of irony, Techdirt noted that "people who make their living sending information to people [that] haven't requested it get bothered when the same thing is done to them."
Techdirt Supports Everyone's Right Not To Be Bothered
Interestingly, Techdirt would prefer not to have removed it and in fact a judge has thrown out a spammer's demand to have his business address and phone number (which are also his home address and phone number) removed from the Web.
Ruling Backs Anti-Spam Activist [WaPo] [via Boing Boing]
Update: "It appears that the spam company that was profiled in last week's NY Times, which resulted in Techdirt being threatened with a bogus lawsuit have been taken offline by their ISP." [TechDirt]
