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rabanes -> RE: Blog Shut Down by 'Christian" apologist threat- Richard Abanes (8/4/2008 2:33:34 PM)
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STATE: ...utilizing terms like "defamation" and "'libel" in an email to an ISP when complaining about the content of one of their customer's web sites -- insinuates something about the intentions of the person sending the email (as in, legal action may be forthcoming if the offending content is not removed).
RA: Well, since I was dealing professionally with a business, I couldn't very well use the terms "not nice" or "really mean." Those terms describe in adult, rel-world, business, terminology what Silva had done in my opinion -- i.e. violate his TOS agreement, and those are the terms that IPOWER uses in their own TOS agreement.
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STATE: I have known perhaps a good half-dozen cases in the last decade where "bigger fish" have tried to silence "smaller fish" on the internet through methods of intimidation. In all these cases, the people in both camps were self-proclaimed followers of Christ.
RA: 1. I'm not that big a fish. 2. I NEVER tried to "silence" anyone. Did you know that Silva had up more than one article on his website that spoke about me negatively? I didn't agree with any of them. And you know what else? I only complained about ONE of them. Clearly, I wasn't trying to "silence" anyone. This is the line coming from those who would want to be able to say anything and everything on the Internet with no accountability. You're above assumption about my motives is wrong, as the evidence I cite shows. I had/have no desire at all for Silva to be silenced.
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STATE: Frequently, the methods of the "bigger fish" have included the insinuation of legal action if the "smaller fish" don't shut up.
RA: I never told Ken to shut up. He violated his own TOS it seems, according to IPOWER's actions. I called their attention to it (see above).
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STATE: Why couldn't you have taken the high road - presented your clear, strong, rational response to this other person's claims (without the letter to the ISP), publicized your response on the internet, and then let it go?
RA: You need to read my OPEN LETTER. And friend, I was NOT the one to publicize ANYTHING. I did this all behind closed doors -- Ken Silva was the one who screamed like a banshee on the Internet about it and announced it to the world. So, just for the sake of accuracy, let's keep that straight. And in doing what he did by announcing it, he also broke federal copyright/privacy laws by posting my email to IPOWER on the Internet --- a private email. You can read the documentation for that in my OPEN LETTER. (Oh, he also forwarded that email on to others -- yet another violation of copyright/privacy laws).
Richard Abanes
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