Let me fight my case in court, not outside
Despite my plea to readers not to complicate my defending of the defamation The NST et.al took against me -- where I warned you circa 11.30hr January 18, 2007, to " tread carefully when you leave your comments" -- there was an evil attempt to implicate me and possibly ruin my case.
I was alerted of a comment left by the name of SuperShyteStirrer, time-stamped 23:00hr January 19, 2007, who tried to implicate me for possible contempt of court by posting an offensive remark. However, as I was online throughout the day, in anticipation of such trolls and "professional spin-doctoring commenters" -- be afraid, very very afraid, one such person has just come from Melbourne -- as we broke the news that Rocky and I have been sued, it was taken down swiftly. The commenter has also been banned from making further commentaries in this blog.
The said comment kept for further digital forensic investigations, should there be a dispute.
Low-blow tactics
I ask you again, dear friends and adversaries online, please don't take such a low-blow tactic to ruin my case. Let me fight my case in court.
Despite the precautionary authentication process being put in place, using TypeKey, Screenshots still employs stringent moderation on the posted comments. Any offensive comments would be manually taken down immediately once they are noted. Hence patches of message in the form of [DELETED] can be found on various parts of the commenters’ section. However, Screenshots readers have been pre-warned that this is not meant to stifle freedom of speech but to comply with Malaysian laws.
As you may have noticed, there are also various additional caution on “Internet not operating in legal vacuum” in various pages of the Screenshots blog.
Preliminary Analysis of the Digital Trail - SuperShyteStirrer
It is noted that the commenter has used proxies to mask his digital trail, routing his posting through the network owned by “Safe Host Network Geneva”, Switzerland, via IP address 80.80.228.150.
I have since put in an additional precaution whereby only commenters with a record of over 25 level-headed postings will be allowed to have their comments published on real-time.
This is because the software currently used does not cater to automatic post-moderation posting, but a manual “Trust” ranking system of the commenters has been a viable modification to enable human intervention to the free-flow of online discussions via the commenters’ postings.
I hope you understand.
And I ask you again, dear friends and adversaries online, please don't resort to low-blow tactic to ruin my case. Let me fight my case in court. Not outside.