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Title: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: aldo_14 on March 12, 2006, 06:00:12 pm
? (http://digg.com/links/Jack_Thompson_threatening_to_sue_Wikipedia)
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Flipside on March 12, 2006, 06:03:11 pm
LOL Yup, I saw that :)

Better still, despite being IP banned from game politics, he managed to change his ISP just so that he could continue to post there.

Can you say 'Internet Stalker'?
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Taristin on March 12, 2006, 06:11:16 pm
*snicker*

libel my ass. Thompson is his own reputation killer. He needn't the internet making fun of him to ruin his image.
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Blaise Russel on March 12, 2006, 06:16:31 pm
To be honest, I was thinking DS.
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Turnsky on March 12, 2006, 06:22:35 pm
Quote from: Raa on March 12, 2006, 06:11:16 pm
He needn't the internet making fun of him to ruin his image.

Too late, he's a royal joke as far as the internet is concerned, i bet he constantly runs his name through google to see what pops up.
he's the ultimate real-life counterpart to the old addage "he who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones" the internet is one big glasshouse, with shards that will seek you out, and cut you.  :p
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: WeatherOp on March 12, 2006, 07:06:01 pm
Quote from: Blaise Russel on March 12, 2006, 06:16:31 pm
To be honest, I was thinking DS.

Likewise
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Mefustae on March 12, 2006, 09:47:12 pm
Does anyone have the original article handy?
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Blue Lion on March 12, 2006, 09:56:25 pm
The original wiki? Theres a copy of it in the link.
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Flipside on March 12, 2006, 10:59:06 pm
ROFL

Check out his latest Email to Dennis Mcauley, the owner of GamePolitics....

http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/228672.html
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Rictor on March 12, 2006, 11:01:42 pm
Welcome to America, the Litigation Holy Land.
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: ZylonBane on March 12, 2006, 11:05:23 pm
Quote from: Blaise Russel on March 12, 2006, 06:16:31 pm
To be honest, I was thinking DS.
Why would Diesel Sweeties be suing Wikipedia?

I was expecting it to be the Scientologists.
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: FireCrack on March 12, 2006, 11:17:32 pm
Hmm, you can still edit his user page...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jackthompson&action=edit
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Grug on March 13, 2006, 12:56:44 am
Rofl. :lol:

Found in a comment to the game politics site:
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/aaaaaaaaaaaaahaha/
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: SadisticSid on March 13, 2006, 03:49:48 am
Surely an organization like Wikimedia has more than enough resources to fight the moron. Why did they concede to his demands? He's made much worse ones to smaller sites, which have called his bluff before.
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: karajorma on March 13, 2006, 08:57:45 am
I think wikipedia just like the publicity :)
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Flipside on March 14, 2006, 09:37:17 am
It's back. They've completely nutured the article, removed any references to his rants whatsoever. So much for the Wikipedia being accurate and unbiased :/
Title: Re: Wikipedia threatened with lawsuit - guess who?
Post by: Shade on March 14, 2006, 09:59:20 am
Originals are still accessable through the history at least.