Atrios Sued
Blog scandal...
The RegisterThe impish Atrios, a pseudonymous and widely read Democratic weblogger has been threatened with a subpoena by right-wing columnist Donald Luskin.
Luskin is obsessed by the Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. On the 'media infiltrations' page of his website, Luskin lists over 50 articles about Krugman in the past six months and a solicitation, 'Krugman Truth Squad T-Shirts - Get One Now.' One column headline boasts 'We Stalked. He Balked - the Truth Squad is getting to Mr Krugman'.
But when Atrios captioned a (characteristically terse) post about Luskin with the phrase 'Diary of a Stalker', the columnist reached for his lawyer. Luskin objected to the caption and what he characterised as libelous comments made by posters to Atrios' Eschaton weblog.
Chillingly, the email threatens: 'Determining your identity for the purpose of making service of process can be easily accomplished through a subpoena to Blogspot.com.'
If Luskin serves his subpoena, as promised, within 72 hours, can Blogspot be trusted to keep Atrios' true identity private?
* Ray, 10/31/2003 02:24:06 PM
