Barbara Bauer suing Wikipedia in order to hide information
May 5, 2008 – 5:47 pm
Someone doesn’t like a literary agent by the name of Barbara Bauer. Barbara wants to make sure we all know about it.
There was an article put up on Wikipedia that made her look quite bad, referring to her as the “dumbest of the twenty worst” agents, among other things. The entry was deleted and replaced numerous times over the past year.
As Techdirt explains, Wikipedia is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, meaning Barabara can go after the user the posted the information, but not after Wikipedia. But where’s the fun in that? Barbara has decided to sue Wikipedia, thinking that this will help keep things quiet. Oops.
I think this entry at Slack Aliss’s Dump sums it up best:
You make an ill-aimed fuss about something you want kept quiet, and what happens? Everyone hears about whatever it is you want kept quiet. Me? I’d never heard of you. Now? I’m left with the impression (rightly or wrongly) that you’re a poor literary agent with a penchant for scatter-gun litigation. Sure sounds professional to me!
