[Pen-l] ‘How I Sued a Craigslist Sex Troll’

[ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not exactly PEN-L related, but might be of interest nonetheless:

Jason Fortuny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Fortuny), in case you have never heard of him, is a dude that posted a Craigslist ad as a submissive female seeking dominant ("brutal") male partners, and then posted all the responses (including "intimate" photographs) he received on a public site. There was a lot of yelling and screaming that followed unsurprisingly, with some angry at Fortuny for the real damage he caused (at least two of his respondents were fired from their jobs) while others found his respondents deserving of at least some of the disrepute given their interest in subjecting someone else to "intense pain" (see http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=74787 for Dan Savage's -- he of "Santorum" fame -- defence of the BDSM issue).

In April, Fortuny was ordered by a judge to pay fines and damages amounting to about $75k in a case brought against him by a John Doe victim (or "victim"), interestingly enough more for copyright violation than for violation of privacy, etc:

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2009/05/07/how-i-sued-a-craigslist-sex-troll/

--ravi

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