I can sympathize with Thomas Sowell, the syndicated National Review columnist who was incensed to discover that an essay posted to a blog was erroneously credited to him.
I can’t, however, defend his haughty rampage.
The writer sicced his lawyers on Google, which owns the Blogger application with which the offending blog was created and hosted. He demanded that Google take down the offending post.
An auto-response from Blogger concluded, “We strongly believe in freedom of expression, even if a blog contains unappealing or distasteful content or presents unpopular viewpoints.”
Sowell countered that it wasn’t the content of the post that made it objectionable, but the fact that it fraudulently used his name to disseminate a work that wasn’t his.
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