The Ellora’s Cave complaint alleges that Litte [aka Dear Author]— “made false and defamatory statements” about the company’s financial state and business practices. Ellora’s Cave also demanded that Dear Author’s investigatory blog post be taken down.

 

It's one thing for EC to want Dear Author to stop blogging about the publisher, but EC wants the post removed from the interwebs.  That's HUGE!  Let's play devil's advocate for a second -- IF EC were to win this case -- which I don't think they will, btw -- that would blow freedom of speech all to hell, not just bloggers, for EVERYONE who posts online! Why is a judge even entertaining this??? 

 

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