Comments on: Viral junk and the Culture War: think before you share https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/07/viral-junk-and-the-culture-war-think-before-you-share/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: John https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/07/viral-junk-and-the-culture-war-think-before-you-share/comment-page-1/#comment-325757 Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:55:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=54179#comment-325757 In reply to Walter Olson.

Consumer complaints are accessible online, but they don’t display the complainant’s PII.

]]> By: Illiberal Liberals Endanger Everyone's Rights - IGF Culture Watch https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/07/viral-junk-and-the-culture-war-think-before-you-share/comment-page-1/#comment-325734 Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:28:44 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=54179#comment-325734 […] Furthermore. Eugene Volokh shows that Raw Story got it wrong and, in a separate post, explains why he agrees with Walter Olson that the cease and desist order is overly broad. More from Walter here. […]

]]> By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/07/viral-junk-and-the-culture-war-think-before-you-share/comment-page-1/#comment-325733 Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:25:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=54179#comment-325733 Also, on the substance of the sensational “doxxing” charge in the Oregon cake case, note commenter “No_Rush” at Patheos, excerpt:

A complaint is a public document. Anyone can access it. Media outlets routinely do. The complaint was accessible online within days after the Facebook post….

There is no affirmative legal obligation to redact public information, under Oregon or Federal law. Nor can the author suggest that the Kleins published the complaint [on their Facebook page] in order to publish the contact information. …The Kleins, defendants in a court case, had a valid reason to publish the complaint itself.

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