Geico and your other insurances will provide you a Umbrella Insurance Policy to cover any litigation from Malicious Prosecution from the web, cost is usually $230 a year for $1,000,000 in coverage. If you have another insurance for your home or agriculture and cars, the cost can drop to $165 a year, that's a cheap lawyer, and they will attempt to respond to your ISPs request to release your name before a lawsuit is started.
Cedars said "People have been sued for less", yes that's true and people have had to pay frivilous legal fees to the defense. Why would he say things like that, Chaserious should comment on that reply. I was in a lawsuit with a technology company because posted financial information and comments made by the CEO in 1998, I won the lawsuit and I was paid damages by the Plaintiff because the judge ruled it was malicious prosecution for expressing Freedom of Speech. I proved everything I wrote about this company, all info were with the SECs forms and conference calls used by the company. The technology company was a boiler-room (They went BK in 1999.) and the ended up paying all my legal cost plus $63,000 in damages, I revealed a huge fact about myself, if someone know how to look up early case studies and the paving of California's Freedom Of Speech and Muzzling, you might know who I am...... ;)
Post by Simon:
"Yes, I sent a PM trying to offer some support and to apologise if it seemed I was being too hard on them. Got some threats in return - not only for the region/country location but also that even though we'd already removed several unconstructive comments / insults directed toward the AAWA he didn't think we'd removed enough of them and was trying to claim that 'people had been sued for less'.
I tried to tell him what I thought he was doing wrong and why I believed it was being mishandled but I don't think advice is anything he wanted to hear, never mind listen to, even if it was given in private.
Oh, and he wanted a public apology from me so here you go Cedars:
I'm sorry ... that you have handled things so badly and continued to poor your own gasoline on the fire you started by acting in an arrogant and dismissive way when concerns where brought to your attention. I'm sorry you exposed other people's identities and seriously affecting people's lives and also tarnished other people reputations who had the misfortune of deciding to embark on this endeavour with you. I'm sorry I feel the need to keep the warning up about AAWA so anyone who googles it can see how you treat people. I'm sorry, in hindsight, that I agreed to let you post your announcement in the first place. I'm sorry I took your side when you whined on and on and on about being attacked and threatened by someone on the site when in hindsight I was fooled and should have deleted you instead."
"Happy?"