[ih] Defamation lawsuit brought by self-proclaimed email "inventor" settles

[johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)]

In article <97D8029A-D613-4512-9DDA-89787F8D3C11 at bennett.com> you write:
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>Yeah, Dave?s claim that there was no meaningful campaign to censor Ayyadurai is disingenuous at best. Masnick himself took part in the (successful) campaign to have the Huffington Post series on
>Ayyadurai?s claims removed or identified as sponsored posts in a very long Sep 2nd, 2014 post on Techdirt.
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>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes-bizarre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml

For anyone still interested, I'd suggest reading the article rather
than a few out of context quotes.  

As I read it, Masnick was surprised and annoyed that Huff Po was
running a series repeating Ayyadurai's nonsense, and pointed out that
the authors of the series appeared to be PR flacks. 

Oh, and don't miss the "rebuttal" that it now links to, which starts
with a list of testimonials by famous people who share the key
characteristic that none of them know anything about e-mail.

R's,
John