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Biotech / Medical : Pluvia vs. Westergaard

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To: Ken Merwin who wrote (144)	8/23/1997 11:08:00 AM
From: Superhawk	of 1267

There is another insidious undercurrent at work here, that of intimidation by implied litigation. In the 22 August version of "The Daily Interpreter" at Westergaard Online, there is the following: "This service one arm of WIBN which has been designed to continually sweep the Internet to identify parties such as "Steve Pluvia" engaged in circulating rumors, fraudulent or intentionally misleading information or analysis for financial gain, competitive advantage or other purposes." In my opinion, that passage contains the implicit threat of legal intervention. Otherwise why continually sweep the Internet in search of miscreants? To engage them in creative debate? I don't think so. How many of us could afford to pay for a landmark legal battle over freedom of speech on the Internet against a deep-pockets adversary? For the few who could afford it, how many would see it as worth the trouble? In my view, many borderline lurkers already have decided never never to post a dissenting opinion on a public forum. Westergaard has already won his cowardly skirmish in my judgement.

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