In 2004 there was a shooting incident in a Melbourne suburb which was reported in The Herald-Sun at the time in an unexceptional manner.
Very little was heard of the incident after that until sometime between 2007 and 2009 a blogger appears to have created a post based on a second published news report.
This post was apparently capable of being read as a series of imputations that would lead the reader to believe that the named victim was associated in some way with unlawful activity. That original post is no longer displayed by Internet search engines.
The matter is are currently before the Court in what seems to be two separate defamation cases.
Which should have made OzSoapbox rather wary. Instead in July this year this second (and apparently unrelated) website owned by a Taiwan-based blogger has blithely proceeded to justify the Court's 2010 decision that parts of the original post were capable of giving rise to defamatory imputations and that litigation could proceed.
Indeed, OzSoapbox went even further with this particular comment after its 3 July 2010 post concerning the defamation litigation:
ozsoapbox
July 9th, 2010 at 4:02 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
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Buddy, Id be very careful with this article and what you are
implying, the person in question will be very interested in this,
that is for certain.
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That sounds a bit threatening.
I'd have thought [redacted by North Coast Voices] 'd have his hands full trying to get richsuing search engines to send out hitmen after me.
If geographic distance didn't save Yahoo! and Google from being served, one wonders if OzSoapbox will also find itself involved in litigation.
