Bloggers Rights...We Have them!

In light of everything going on, including being threatened legally. I had decided to do a little research of my own about bloggers rights. Did you know that we actually have rights as bloggers?! I certainly didn't and its quite useful to know. So I'm going to link some stuff to read and copy paste some stuff that seemed important to me and should be to you as well.

:To my readers lol sorry if this is boring to you, but please share.

• Bloggers can be journalists (and journalists can be bloggers).
• Bloggers are entitled to free speech
• Bloggers have the right to political speech
• Bloggers have the right to stay anonymous.
• Bloggers have freedom from liability for hosting speech the same way other web hosts do.

Now there is more to that as far as what that all means and you can find that here https://www.eff.org/bloggers

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Now here comes a personal issue for me and its the ins and outs of defamation. Its been thrown around a lot that myself and other bloggers were going to be sued for Defamation, Slander, and Libel. Now while this may sound shocking and scary its not. As a blogger I was extremely careful to only post the truth. Truth now as how I saw it but what I could show with undoctored screen shots and things I could legally find on Google. Do you realize that its quite easy to find a lot of information about someone, a business, or anything on Google? We live in a information age and the information is right at our fingertips. We just have to be willing to search it.

So here are the definitions for all three of the things I'm being sued for.

Defamation:  1. (noun) defamation 
act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion   http://www.definitions.net/definition/defamation

Slander: 1. (noun) slander 
a false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another  http://www.definitions.net/definition/slander

Libel: 1. (noun) libel 

a brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc http://www.definitions.net/definition/libel

Here also is the definitions for all three above but from this site https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamation

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Now to be fair I can't actually be sued for slander as my blog is just words and I haven't had an vlogs on here or had contact with anyone over the phone about said *whatever you want to call it*

So what does this all mean for a blogger? That like any post you may publish you want to be careful to what you say. Does it mean that if you call some person a asshole and they don't like it will they sue you? No. I think my situation is a very different one. I happen to be trying to take down "the man" and I never told myself it would be easy or fun. But it's whats right.

I think in all honesty my situation is one of those ones you see or read about and think "THANK GOD THAT'S NOT ME" Goes back to theMarissa's Bunny  issue, its like history repeating itself in a way. I remember reading about that and thinking "glad I'm no where near that situation" But those people didn't let down getting the word out, helping the parents. 

You've read my blogs about the situation, here is another blog to read in case you haven't but here is  Four Monkey's 4 Me

She has taken the charge, I respect her for what she has put out there. Please show her some love.


While you have distanced yourself from this issue, remember this....who will stand up for the ones who are left behind and continue to come if we fall away? When all is said and done, this will rock the special needs community like never before. I for one will still be standing when the fallout dust has settled.

The Character of a Business?!

As you all know I've been in the middle of a bully/name calling battle with A4CWSN. It hasn't been pretty, I haven't enjoyed myself and when all is said and done I have done what I can to be above it.  But at some point after my private info being shared online, its gone down hill from there.

I've tried to shy away from the financial aspect of it all BUT I can share with you a blog that you can get all that information from. She's done a great job of bring forward what you all need to know.

So where to start? First off, I felt a kind of personal victory the other night....think about a week ago when I saw this

I have a point here trust me....lol

Now, all that being said, I felt bad...because while I feel like a personal victory was won it was won at a cost. That night I went to bed thinking about all that has happened at this point, I slept well for the first time because I thought it was over. 

Sadly I was mistaken....The above farewell speech is very long winded and I only pulled parts of it, you can find the full version here. This is my problem...while we all thought he was gone, we carried on life. I didn't tweet the A4CWSN, I didn't @ them in any way. There was no need to until this happened.

See that tweet right there....you know the one calling me and others child porn supporters? Want to know what the hell he is talking about? Go here, because while we were all duped into thinking that JB was ok, we found out he wasn't. BUT you can also go here and see that A4CWSN had no problem taking money from him. Yet bashes us for "supporting" him.  This is what comes from the man that wants to  become a business. Not sure about you but I think I'd expect more from someone who wants to support other SN parents and expects money from others. 

I "think" I would expect them to be able to rise above it all. I "think" that if I told Coca Cola that their soda tasted like swill and it ruins people brains, they wouldn't come attack me on twitter of facebook. Hell I might be wrong but I assume that they have the ability to rise above it all.

But this is my last and final problem, this is a special needs community, brought together for the sake of our children, torn apart from the greed of one man. A man for whatever reason feels the need to threaten, defame and otherwise harass other parents for what?....boredom?

I say this because there are still major developers and companies who follow this page, who support this page. What does it speak to your character? What does it say when you say nothing? What are you saying about yourself and what you sell when you are supporting a fraud and a bully? The lies and harassment have NO END....as you can see for yourself, even after a farewell post....it doesn't end.