The Newspaper Shop -- Thursday edition

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Originally posted by walktalker


Free speech and the Internet; a fish story
This is a legal thriller set in a fishbowl. It's the story of a multi-million dollar lawsuit that has transformed a sleepy online community of aquatic plant gardeners into a hotbed of accusations of libel, conspiracy, defamation, computer hacking, infringement on freedom of speech and even death threats. The plaintiff in the case of Robert Novak vs. APD List Members, filed last May in a federal court in New York, seeks damages of more than $15 million. The FBI has even been notified, although there is no public evidence to date that it is conducting an investigation.
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/0...nts/index.html

This story made me furious. But it becomes an issue of how much energy I want to expend on stuff that makes me furious.