ePerks & Freedom of Speech?
There is a war ranging, and it’s between ePerks and a blogger named Vlad Zablotskyy. He wrote a blog about his experience with ePerks – a company that REALTORS sign up that gives “perks” to buyers and sellers.
Is there freedom of speech in the “Blogosphere” or do we need to sensor what we say? Can a company, “ePerks” sue a blogger due to his blog that wasn’t complimentary. What happens when others comment and agree that “ePerks” doesn’t deliver what they promise? So who’s right?
I’m going on the side of the Blogger….. we can say anything in the United States, we have Freedom of Speech, and speech includes the written word, even if it’s in the form of a blog on the internet.
Until this is solved, I guess we all need to be careful what we say about who! However, what an awesome forum for those of us who have been disappointed by a service provider.
YOU GO VLAD – FIGHT THE ePERKS people! TOGETHER WE ARE ONE STRONG VOICE!
Thanks for supporting Vlad, Susan! We’re confident that Vlad will prevail in this instance, but the fight will be an expensive one. We urge anyone who has not yet donated to Vlad’s defense find to do so with whatever amount you can comfortably afford. You can donate at my blog, BloodhoundBlog.com, RssPieces.com, or anywhere you see the Vlad Zablotskyy Defense Fund widget. Your donation will not only help Vlad, but all bloggers. Please…Do The Right Thing!
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The Beginner’s Action Guide to Learning about Vlad Zablotkyy vs. ePerks / Ben Behrouzi said this on June 17, 2008 at 11:58 pm |
I agree the suit is about negative blog comments.
However if ePerks tries to say their website and traffic was greatly diminished by the blog I would beg to differ because the robots.txt entry is doing more damage to their website than any negative post on a blog would.
Makes you wonder if ePerks did the robots.txt file on purpose or if its out of incompetence on the webmasters behalf.
If VLAD wants to end this just send the attorneys this link. – Look at the areas I boxed in Red.
http://www.interiorliving.com/eperks.jpg
For those who need an explanation.
http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html
How do I prevent robots scanning my site?
The quick way to prevent robots visiting your site is put these two lines into the /robots.txt file on your server
I would estimate they did this around October/November and didnt change it.
ejerks should fire their webmaster and stop the stupid lawsuit. The robots.txt is doing much more damage to their site than any blog posting saying something negative.
Thank you for supporting Vlad!
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The Beginner’s Action Guide to Learning about ePerks / Ben Behrouzi vs Vlad Zablotkyy said this on June 18, 2008 at 9:46 pm |
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