In Canada Judge Goes After Forum’s John Does

[Timocrat]

Dateline: Gulag Canadaina
By: Mark Fournier
From: Free Dominon
Via: The Honor Network

In Canada Judge Goes After Forum’s John Does
Priority News Exchange Program News Item (PNEP)

And this is how freedom dies: PC Police move against opponents in the Nanny State of Canada.

Forum Operators ordered to turn over IPs

Richard Warman vs the Fourniers

Today Connie and I received the ruling on Richard Warman's motion that we be ordered to turn over the IP addresses and email addresses of the Free Dominion 8 John Does who he has named as co-defendants in one of his SLAPP suits against us. The full ruling can be read via link below.

The judge has ruled in favour of Richard Warman and ordered that we release this confidential information to Warman and that we pay him over $5,000 in costs.

We are weighing our options at this time but without the funds to appeal it seems most likely that we will have to comply. We must obey the law or we become no better than our political opponents.

This ruling means a number of things. Most importantly it means that anyone can gain access to a Canadian forum owner's confidential records on its members simply by filing a lawsuit (that could later be dropped) against the forum operator. No forum operater in Canada, and no Canadian blogger who allows the public to post on his blog, can now safely keep any information at all about a website's members. We highly recommend that Canadian forum operators and bloggers expunge all such records from their files and stop collecting any information that could endanger the anonymity of their posters.

Free Dominion stopped recording the IPs of its members and visitors over a year ago.

There are serious implications for the John Does as well. While it is highly unlikely that an ISP will have records on IPs from that long ago, and if any records do exist the data will have deteriorated to uslessness, any of the John Does might become a target of harrassment by Richard Warman. There is also a very good chance Richard Warman could end up harrassing the wrong people using this faulty data, but that's the new reality cast by this ruling.

We will keep everybody abreast of events as they unfold. This was only one round, the best is yet to come.

For more click: http://www.freedominion.com.pa/images/motion_decision.pdf

[outdoors]

WTF?

[Percy]

IF the 'authorities' are going to get their hands on these IP addresses one way or another, and they have done nothing wrong but exercise their free speech, how about a class action in return or at least a group of them confronting this Warman fellow. Baseball bats optional.

[outdoors]

IF the 'authorities' are going to get their hands on these IP addresses one way or another, and they have done nothing wrong but exercise their free speech, how about a class action in return or at least a group of them confronting this Warman fellow. Baseball bats optional.

no doubt! how about a being denied free speach civil action?

I have been banned from this little local web site CKDR.net (feminazi radio station of the north) http://www.ckdr.net/soundoff/index.php -site for not conforming to the feminist propaganda--they were worried about whether a "woman's group" would step in and take action-so i was banned for sticking up for men.

threads like; "why are so many men deadbeats?"

Another thread which i started called "systematic abuse" in which i stated facts and figures to counter the media's feminist propaganda by instilling fear and terror against men and fathers showed the complete ignorance of some of the posters on that site.

oh,well,if nothing else,i have gotten all of the man-bashing commercials removed.This was nothing but abuse to our children who had to endure media adds by this radio station EVERY TEN MINUTES put on by the feminists

I have been banned for more than 2 years now so i dunno if these threads are still there?