Comments on: Butler University sues Anonymous Blogger

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By: ibrahim saraçoglu

ibrahim saraçoglu — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:27:26 +0000

Butler is trying to control the story. This is going to be fun to watch…

By: lenses

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By: jb

jb — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:07:13 +0000

Maybe school administrations need to realize that handling personnel matters via email is NOT effective and NOT necessarily confidential. I’ve seen far worse criticisms published in student newspapers. Emails go public all the time. It’s not a confidential medium.

Doesn’t Butler have to prove that the student knew what he was saying wasn’t true to win a libel suit? How do you prove damages from a blog?

By: A Legal Primer for Bloggers – Anonymity « Indiana Intellectual Property & Technology Blog

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:47:45 +0000

[...] This post continues a series dealing specifically with the legal issues that bloggers should be thinking about. Part 4, Anonymity, is especially timely, as Indianapolis-based Butler University has recently initiated a lawsuit against an anonymous blogger for making allegedly libelous and defamatory statements about school administrators on his blog, The True BU. The story is covered in detail at Inside Higher Ed. For a nice timeline of the buildup to the Butler lawsuit, see Brad Ward’s post over at SquaredPeg. [...]

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:49:28 +0000

I agree that whatever the context, Butler will only come out looking bad in this fight. People love underdogs, and a single student vs an entire university just looks awful. I don’t go to Butler, but I have a number of close friends who did, and their stories and problems with Butler administrations had already given me a pretty poor opinion of the people running the school. This case just cements that opinion against them.

By: Bradjward

Bradjward — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:41:18 +0000

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

Bill – It would not have been available to them. There were a handful in the Admission Office who were 99% sure that it was Jess, but we never passed any information along.

By: Bill Watts

Bill Watts — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:47:32 +0000

Dear Brad,

Thanks for the account you offer here. I do have a question for you here: Are you saying that others at Butler would have known who Soodo Nym was in December of 2008? I can see that you and perhaps others in your office knew this, but would that information have been availalbe to the upper administrators who got so exercised about this?

By: Bovice

Bovice — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:40:06 +0000

After 2013, I must say. Admissions people do not understand the internet.

organized chaos, organized chaos.