What might you have done differently if you were in the position of artist Ken Zeran, mentioned in this chapter?
If I were in the position of Ken Zeran, I would have at first done the same thing: call AOL and ask them to take down the posting. After this, Ken continued to call and ask them to take the postings down which they didn’t. Before having read this chapter, I would have continued to do the same thing that Ken was doing. However, I have learned that the Good Samaritan Clause under the CDA gives service providers immunity to filter as it wishes. So there would be no good to calling and asking them to take it down or even suing them would be a lost cause. For this reason, I think that I would try to use media outlets to set the situation straight. I would start posting things in hopes that people would believe me. Or perhaps I would call a local radio station who could try to help me set the story straight. However, if I started to receive death threats, I would go straight to the police because I wouldn’t want to be risking my life.
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In this day and age, I'd likely try to get a lawyer to sue and change the good samaritan precedent. But to afford that - I'd go online and try to get support. Ken wasn't affected when the power of the Web was quite as powerful as it has become today (I'm thinking of Shirky, chapter 1).
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