<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Masnick was successful in getting the Huff Po articles removed. <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 21, 2019, at 9:00 AM, Noel Chiappa <<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" class="">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">From: Richard Bennett<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Masnick's claim that Huffington Post published material damaging to<br class="">"its journalistic integrity"<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">But those articles _would_ damage the journalistic reputation of a news<br class="">organization which published them. (I'm going to avoid the rathole of<br class="">whether HuffPo has any journalistic reputation.)<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">strongly suggests that Huffington Post should take actions to<br class="">restore said integrity<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This is a real tar-pit. I get your point, but chastising the HuffPo can't<br class="">really be attacking _Ayyadurai_'s speech rights, but rather HuffPo's.<br class=""><br class="">And pointing out someone's busted speech happens all the time, and while<br class="">such activity does implicitly call for a reaction from the attackee, i) it<br class="">doesn't on its own suggest what the reaction should be, and ii) does this<br class="">mean that _all_ such pointings-out are illegitimate (since by this<br class="">standard they're attacks on free speech)? If the latter, what _is_ the<br class="">appropriate response to someone saying, or publishing, something bogus?<br class="">Surely not silence!<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I wonder to what degree Ayyadurai's campaign to get credit was just part of<br class="">the runup to his Senate campaign? If so, his defeat there is true karma.<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Noel<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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