Quote:What if you woke up one day and found that someone had posted a litany of unfounded accusations about you on a website?

What if you tried to ignore the website but then discovered it was popping up at the top of search results on your name, keeping you from getting job offers, making people at work snicker about you behind your back, even interfering with some of your friendships?

This is the nightmare facing Surya Panditi, Cisco's senior vice president and general manager of Service Provider Networking Group, a unit responsible for some of the company's most advanced networking products.

For two years, he has been unsuccessfully trying to get rid of a website hosted on Wordpress.com that accuses of him of incompetence and corruption at work and having an affair.

Burgoyne says that Panditi doesn't have a choice but to try and expose the identify of Corporate Renegade.

That's because the law currently leans in favor of freedom of speech, making it very difficult for people to get critical websites taken down, Burgoyne says. In order for a blog, comment or site to be declared by a judge as defamation, the courts prefer that a defendant be present in court.

"In a situation like this, where you don’t know who [wrote the website] who the defendant is, you can’t move the case forward until you’ve exhausted every effort to find them.

(07-29-2014 12:49 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  http://www.businessinsider.com/ciscos-surya-panditi-fights-troll-2014-7

Quote:What if you woke up one day and found that someone had posted a litany of unfounded accusations about you on a website?

What if you tried to ignore the website but then discovered it was popping up at the top of search results on your name, keeping you from getting job offers, making people at work snicker about you behind your back, even interfering with some of your friendships?

This is the nightmare facing Surya Panditi, Cisco's senior vice president and general manager of Service Provider Networking Group, a unit responsible for some of the company's most advanced networking products.

For two years, he has been unsuccessfully trying to get rid of a website hosted on Wordpress.com that accuses of him of incompetence and corruption at work and having an affair.

Burgoyne says that Panditi doesn't have a choice but to try and expose the identify of Corporate Renegade.

That's because the law currently leans in favor of freedom of speech, making it very difficult for people to get critical websites taken down, Burgoyne says. In order for a blog, comment or site to be declared by a judge as defamation, the courts prefer that a defendant be present in court.

"In a situation like this, where you don’t know who [wrote the website] who the defendant is, you can’t move the case forward until you’ve exhausted every effort to find them.

Seems like the courts need to adapt to the changing times.

(07-29-2014 01:20 PM)VA49er Wrote:  Seems the burden should be on the blogger proven what he writes is true rather than the victim proven the blogger is a d(ckhead.

(07-29-2014 12:49 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  http://www.businessinsider.com/ciscos-surya-panditi-fights-troll-2014-7

Quote:What if you woke up one day and found that someone had posted a litany of unfounded accusations about you on a website?

What if you tried to ignore the website but then discovered it was popping up at the top of search results on your name, keeping you from getting job offers, making people at work snicker about you behind your back, even interfering with some of your friendships?

This is the nightmare facing Surya Panditi, Cisco's senior vice president and general manager of Service Provider Networking Group, a unit responsible for some of the company's most advanced networking products.

For two years, he has been unsuccessfully trying to get rid of a website hosted on Wordpress.com that accuses of him of incompetence and corruption at work and having an affair.

Burgoyne says that Panditi doesn't have a choice but to try and expose the identify of Corporate Renegade.

That's because the law currently leans in favor of freedom of speech, making it very difficult for people to get critical websites taken down, Burgoyne says. In order for a blog, comment or site to be declared by a judge as defamation, the courts prefer that a defendant be present in court.

"In a situation like this, where you don’t know who [wrote the website] who the defendant is, you can’t move the case forward until you’ve exhausted every effort to find them.

Seems like the courts need to adapt to the changing times.

(07-29-2014 01:27 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Against who? That's the problem.

(07-29-2014 01:24 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  I used to work for a reputation management company. With some SEO work he could start to bury that in the search results. However, thanks to sources like Business Insider, the more people who click on the story, the more Google views it as a relevant result.

He does have a libel case and should pursue it.

(07-29-2014 01:27 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Against who? That's the problem.

(07-29-2014 01:58 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(07-29-2014 01:24 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  I used to work for a reputation management company. With some SEO work he could start to bury that in the search results. However, thanks to sources like Business Insider, the more people who click on the story, the more Google views it as a relevant result.

He does have a libel case and should pursue it.

Yeah I was going to post something similar.

It really isn't terribly difficult to get things pushed down, but your average person doesn't know that and they probably wouldn't want to spend thousands on a reputation management company to do it.

(07-29-2014 02:31 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(07-29-2014 01:58 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(07-29-2014 01:24 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  I used to work for a reputation management company. With some SEO work he could start to bury that in the search results. However, thanks to sources like Business Insider, the more people who click on the story, the more Google views it as a relevant result.

He does have a libel case and should pursue it.

Yeah I was going to post something similar.

It really isn't terribly difficult to get things pushed down, but your average person doesn't know that and they probably wouldn't want to spend thousands on a reputation management company to do it.

If you read the article you see that he already went that route.