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The Legal Satyricon
Personal blog · randazza.wordpress.compoliticsculture
The Legal Satyricon is a personal blog at randazza.wordpress.com about politics and culture. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this legal blog for posts on free speech and bloggers' liability, including the Crystal Cox libel case, and on the legal status of pornography in California.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Occasionally irreverent thoughts on law, liberty, tech, and politics.
What Hacker News says?
I have little respect for Violet Blue. You're talking about someone who changed her name, then sued the pre-existing owner of the domain matching her name for trademark infringement (longer story, a porn actress started using the name "about" the same time as Violet Blue began writing under that pseudonym. EIGHT YEARS LATER, the writer changed her name and went after the porn actress and appears to have this sincere…
Comment linking /2009/02/03/violet-blue-no-names-jane/
on “Google outed me”Submitted The Oatmeal responds through Counsel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is an interesting and important case; the limits of the first amendment being tested by a true scoundrel. Crystal Cox was clearly, unambiguously running a protection racket, where she publishes scurrilous claims about somebody and then offers to remove them in exchange for a "reputation management" fee. She turned this racket on her former lawyer Marc Randazza -- a lawyer famed for his first-amendment efforts -…
Comment linking /2012/12/17/this-domain-name-seized-from-crystal-cox/
on “U.S. Court: Bloggers Are Journalists, even when they're libeling you ”So this is really interesting. I was curious about this awhile back and found this: https://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/why-is-prostitutio... So interestingly California is the only state in the union, at least as of 2008, where porn is strictly speaking legal. But note that the line of reasoning used to make it legal was that the person paying for the sex wasn't actually involved in the sex. So essentially yo…
Comment linking /2008/03/18/why-is-prostitution-illegal-but-pornography-is-not/
on “The Rise and Fall of RedBook”