I participated on a panel at SES Chicago with Jeffrey Wozman Attorney at Law on Online Defamation and the law. The anonymity of the web makes the laws which exists pretty much useless as you have to be able to identify and find the poster of the defamation to prosecute them. When somebody is attacking your maliciously as in in our case a competitor they are going to cover up their identity. Unbelievably we are still being attacked and they still create links to the reports they created. I just do not get it. How big a threat do they see us or is it their policy to consistently ensure that there is false information out there about their competitors. Does it make them feel better do they actually believe that is is a good marketing. I once did Reputation Management for a company whose competitors were trained on how to attack them online it was predominantly one company doing most of the damage. Today the Company who attacked them are out of business.
The video below is an interview which Geoffrey and I did with Chris Boggs after the session.
