Some people don’t get how the internet works. No matter how much they use it, who they talk to or what they read, the internet remains beyond their grasp of comprehension.

Liskula Cohen and Rosemary Port are two of these people.

Liskula Cohen is a socialite (I don’t know what else to call her) who runs around New York doing socialitey things. One day Liskula learns off a blog on the internet slagging her off as a skank.

The blog is hosted by Google’s Blogspot so Cohen launches a 3 million dollar defamation lawsuit against the blogger. Last week I wrote about the US courts decision to order Google to reveal the name of the Blogger.

Not only was it someone Cohen knew but after satisfying her ego and getting a name she dropped the lawsuit and after wasting everybody’s time let bygones be bygones.

I’m not sure who she was expecting was behind the blog but clearly it wasn’t Mr. Money McMoneybags like she’d hoped.

The unmasked blogger was Rosemary Port, a former acquaintance of Cohen. The reason for the outburst?

Apparently Cohen had been bitching about Port to one of Port’s ex-boyfriends.

…and this is what happens when you let socialites with the intellect of twelve year olds on the internet.

One minute it’s ‘SUE SUE SUE’, the next ‘oh I know you? That’s ok babe forget about it, you know like whatever’.

The point I made in my original article on this matter was that Cohen had of been much better of if she’d just let the blog disappear into internet obscurity. One other point I wasn’t able to decipher was beyond ego stroking, why Cohen launched the suit in the first place.

Turns out Ms Skank was being led by Solicitor Stupid.

“The idea that Liskula brought this on herself is repulsive. It’s shameful. It’s like saying she had it coming,” Wagner said. “We never contacted the press. If we had thought for a minute that the Google case would have brought more attention to the anonymous blogger’s site, we never would have started it.”


Oh really. You sued the biggest company on the internet and thought nobody would hear about it? What the hell did you think was going to happen? That you’d just rock up to court all suave for a private court session, Google’s defense lawyers would just roll over and CHA-CHING badda bing badda boom?

To quote Barney Frank, “on what planet do you spend most of your time?”

The stupid doesn’t end there though, oh no.

Rosemary Port today has announced plans to sue Google for revealing her identity for $15 million.

WHO LETS THESE PEOPLE ONTO THE INTERNET?!

Putting aside the small factor that a court ordered Google to release her name, Blogger is owned by Google and users of the free service are bound by the terms of service. The Blogger terms of service clearly state:

As a condition of using the Service, you agree to the terms of the Google Privacy Policy. You agree that Google may access or disclose your personal information, including the content of your communications, if Google is required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request (such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), or as otherwise provided in these Terms of Service and the general Google Privacy Policy.


It’s right there for anyone to see.

Apparently not so for Port.

“When I was being defended by attorneys for Google, I thought my right to privacy was being protected,” Port said.

“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.”


Riiight. So the multi billion dollar company’s service, which you pay nothing for to use is going to throw all their money into challenging the American legal system so you can sit on the internet and call your friends skanks anonymously?

I’m going to let you in on a little secret Rosemary, Google didn’t become a multi-billion dollar industry by spending millions on lawsuits defying court orders and defending people who pay nothing to use their services.

Google’s lawyers weren’t there for you, they were there to protect Google.

Maybe next time hire your own damn lawyer and don’t be a tightarse and pay for some blog hosting. Good luck convincing a judge you didn’t agree to Google’s terms and conditions when you signed up to Blogger.

As much as I hate censorship it’s times like this I wish we could just put permanent bans on certain people contributing anything further to the internet.

These two women continue to feud like rampaging bulls throwing their egos all over the internet, do the rest of us really have to suffer the consequences?

1. So…is Liskula Cohen a skank?