How to Unmask the Internet's Vilest Characters

EDIT: Somehow I missed that they did do some of these things, but still, they shouldn't have mentioned the site.

There are plenty of things that could be done that don't require the removing the CDA. If websites are liable for user-generated content, then liability will ensure that we cannot have user-generated content at all. Google, for example, has a specific process for you to remove this sort of thing:

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

More generally, you can also get a court order declaring something unlawful, then go here:

http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=lr...

But as they point out, it doesn't do much unless you get to the root of the problem. Find the person who posted it.

Lastly, way to go NYTimes. I had never heard of that porn site before, but now everyone on the internet can look up that site and that post, making your use of an alias meaningless. Are you really on her side, or were you trying to trigger the Streisand effect?

I think that's a bad example. What basically happened is that an odd ex-boyfriend passed around pictures, and one of those people put it on the internet and tried to blackmail her. It's not too different to the whole myexbitch thing.

The real internet villains are the ones who need no provocation, and go after people far innocenter than people who let their boyfriend take nude pictures. Like what Anon did with the Sony exec families, that (didn't by far) could have gone horribly wrong if a internet-only psycho got enough of that information.