Time out for an Internet good deed

Or: What Happens When Crystal Cox is an Asshat

Ok, so there’s this person who calls herself an investigative blogger/journalist. I have no problem with that. Bloggers are good, bloggers make the new media go ’round. Bloggers can tell Word documents from forty-year-old typewritten ones. However, she is not an investigative blogger/journalist. She is neither a journalist or even a real blogger.

What she does is write a bunch of made up stuff about people, and then offers, for a minor maintenance fee of course, to not only take her lies down but to "monitor your online reputation." Uh-huh. Sounds a whole lot like a protection racket to me.

So anyway, the person, Crystal Cox, has been sued, and lost. She went screaming about "free speech" and the First Amendment to a lawyer who by all accounts is a First Amendment God and then demanded he represent her for free or she’d do the same thing to him. What the hell?

So at any rate, I have no delusions about my little diary here being a hotbed of traffic, but if a bunch of us here on OD donated a single entry about the asshat known as Crystal Cox, then it would increase the number of negative press hits a Google search of her name would get and push the unfortunate innocents that share her name (it’s Crystal Cox, BTW) off the front page completely.

Here’s where I picked up the story, at the Philly Law Blog and there’s already a bit of a storm brewing about Ms. Cox the blogger on Google. Stick her with her stupidity for all time I say, or at least until a different Crystal Cox does something sillier or stupider.

Just sayin.

And I’ll get a real entry in tomorrow or the next day.