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Via Mefi and the Times, a West Palm Beach circuit court judge is forbidding a man named Tucker Max to write about Katy Johnson, a former Miss Vermont, on his website. He cannot even mention her name or link to her website. Though at least for the time being you can see Google's cache of the page in question here. I don't see how the judge can arrive at this judgement - it's a clear First Amendment issue. If Max is publishing inaccurate information then Ms. Johnson has recourse to a libel suit against him. I am not defending this guy - he appears to be a misogynist alcoholic frat boy. But I am defending his right to write about it. Very weird situation.
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Let me get this straight--he's hooked up with a stunningly beautiful woman that can't seem to get enough sex with him, although she's rather virginal, having only been with two other guys. It seems to me the only examples of her stupidity were an inability to say no to peer pressure when it came to drinking, difficulty conjugating verbs when drunk, and, oh, mistaking her boyfriend for an actual human being. And he wonders why after the way he treated her, she's suddenly embracing abstinence, self esteem and female empowerment? Man, if it weren't that her site is aimed at young teenage girls with plans to have a message board, why would she want to censor the guy? He's singlehandedly insuring that he's never gonna get laid again.
Posted by: zaneblue | June 4, 2003 4:40 PM