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Legal Issues

by Mike Masnick


Filed Under:
anonymity, defamation, liskula cohen

Companies:
google



Model Sues Google Because Some People Are Just So Mean

from the suck-it-up dept

I still haven't quite figured out why people think that it's illegal to be a jerk, but there's just some part of people's brains that makes them believe that if they don't like something, it simply must be illegal. A model named Liskula Cohen is apparently really, really peeved that there are some mean people online who have been making fun of her, and she's suing Google to get the company to reveal the identity of those mean, mean jerks. Of course, in doing so, Cohen has only called that much more attention to the fact that some random anonymous internet losers think she's "skanky."

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  1. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 2:54am
    by Anonymous Coward

    i for one had never heard of her im pretty sure most if not all techdirt readers will agree.

    perhaps an attempt for self publicity?

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  2. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 3:07am

    Who's gone and read the blog then?

    by Analmouse Coward

    I've now read about this bloody woman in over four blogs this morning, I feel dirty but i couldn't help myself, its like watching a train crash, the morbid curiousity is just too much for me. i'll repent later.

    LiveandLove (loopyhoopy ho) is retarded in thinking she can make a difference, just makes her look like a fool!. has she never seen the interwebs insult someone before?

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  3. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 3:09am

    Re:

    by Michael Whitetail

    Indeed, in this case which is just about some random guys being retards, all the media exposure of her lawsuit garentees at least some people will go and look her up online.

    In this case, even bad publicity is better than none since people knowing of the original retards opinions does nothing to hurt her at all.

    I for one will not be looking her up, and I hope other techdirt readers follow this example.

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  4. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 3:12am

    Skank

    by August West

    Liskula Cohen? She's a skank

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  5. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 3:33am
    by Anonymous Coward

    I'm not sure what a shank is, but she does seem a bit shanky. I also heard she's a raciest and and works part-time at the local Denny's. That's just what I heard.

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  6. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 4:00am

    Re:

    by DS

    Well, I have heard that she's skanky.

    But that's the extent of it.

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  7. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 4:03am

    Poor Girl

    by Chrisinsocalif

    Sounds like she got sand in her vagina.

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  8. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 4:04am

    Skank

    I'll bet she wishes she was a man. Then she wouldn't be such a skank. At least that's my view.

    Ken
    www.kenstech.com

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  9. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 4:10am

    Re: Skank

    by Liskula Cohen

    I am not! What is your address? I am going to sue you!

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  10. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 4:21am

    Re: Re: Skank

    Why would she need that, she'll just sue TechDirt. Afterall, it's their fault too, now.

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  11. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 4:38am

    My opinion

    by Me

    It is my opinion Liskula Cohen has her chops on the offbeat.

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  12. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 5:27am

    Re: Who's gone and read the blog then?

    by Anonymous Monarch

    Don't bother, she looks like an anorexic she-male.

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  13. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 5:41am
    by Anonymous Coward

    You don't have to do something "illegal" to be sued. Actually, to be sued you have to do something "wrongful." If you do something "illegal" you're a target for criminal prosecution. It's two different things (the last time I checked).

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  14. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 5:51am

    Re: Re: Who's gone and read the blog then?

    by Greg

    Agreed.

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  15. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 6:15am

    Re: Re: Skank

    by Shadow

    Wow, sue someone for being an ass, you're fukin stupid. Idiocy on such a level simply deserves a good bitchslap.

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  16. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 6:20am
    by Anonymous Coward

    She sure doesn't float my boat but she has the same sort of look as Paris Hilton. It is someone's definition of beauty that has nothing to do with mine.

    Liskula Cohen was slightly more attractive before she got hit across the chops with a vodka bottle.

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  17. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 6:34am
    by asdf

    I won't be looking her up.

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  18. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 6:53am

    Uh Oh!

    by DS78

    Some skank has learned to work the Google on her internet machine.

    Let the lawsuits commence.

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  19. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 6:55am

    Re: Re:

    by Anonymous Coward

    It's not libel if it's true.

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  20. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 7:23am
    by Anonymous Coward

    Liskula Cohen? That ain't no woman! It's a man, baby!

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  21. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 7:28am

    Given these photos.

    1. http://skanksnyc.blogspot.com/

    2. skank = One who is disgustingly foul or filthy and often considered sexually promiscuous. Used especially of a woman or girl.

    1 + 2 = she has no case according the average moron in a hurry

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  22. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 7:35am
    by Overcast

    I heard somewhere she's a skanky ol' hag - but it could just be rumor...

    Could say she is - and she can sue me, can't get blood from a turnip afterall, but I had just heard about it, didn't say it.

    Of course, I would have never known that she's a vindictive bitch until I read this!

    NO MORE umm.. whatever her name was, PORN FOR ME ANYMORE!!

    lol

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  23. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 8:23am

    Re: Re: Re: Skank

    by Nick

    I'm not fukin stupid. Say it again and I'll sue!

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  24. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 8:24am

    Bow wow

    by Yenta4renta

    Yenta just went to look at this broad. Skanky is kind. She should quit while she's still just considered skanky. I'll wager she will be the type to eat her young, or be a parking ticket maven.

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  25. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 8:26am

    Re:

    by Nick

    What look is that?
    The "Nobody home" look?
    Or the "I will show you mine if you show me attention" look?

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  26. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 8:30am

    Implications:

    by WiseGuy

    So wait - what this model is basically saying is that google is responsible for 9/11, the terrible tsunami ... hell even WWII! ... any why did I reach this conclusion? .... cos' i've googled all those terms and i got results ... the bastards !!

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  27. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 9:17am

    Heh

    by did some looking

    Turns out that this is the same "model" that got into a drink tossing episode with Samir Dervisevic.
    After which a bouncer at the bar they were in smashed a bottle and cut up Samir Dervisevic pretty badly back in 1970.
    So it turns out she is a instigating skank as well!

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  28. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 9:33am

    If it were illegal to be a jerk...

    by James

    ...Rush Limbaugh would be locked up for life w/Ann Coulter and he'd be forced to suck her c**k every day.

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  29. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 9:34am
    by Anonymous Coward

    The word libel immediately comes to mind and it is not at all unreasonable to assert that the blog is libelous. Whether or not she would prevail in a lawsuit for libel depends upon the evidence presented to the court, but she could face a very difficult uphill struggle if she is deemed a "public figure".

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  30. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 10:32am

    whatever

    by Michael Langford

    How can she prove she's not a skank?

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  31. Jan 8th, 2009 @ 12:44am
    by Dan

    Check pic #4, is she the top lady or bottom lady?

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