The Herald reports:
The internet blogger charged with breaching name suppression orders says he will defend the charges.
Police say Auckland's Cameron Slater, who writes the blog Whaleoil, broke name suppression by posting pictorial clues identifying the individuals in two high profile sexual offence cases.
One case involved an Olympian and the other a well-known entertainer.
Slater faces five charges, relating to breaching court orders suppressing the names of the accused and one of the victims.
It is the first time a New Zealand blogger has been taken to court rather than just warned.
Slater said he would defend his actions because the laws which protect people's identities need changing, the Dominion Post reported.So it appears Slater is going to attempt martyrdom.
He believed suppression laws were out of date and if acquitted he would publish the blogs again.
He ought to contact Vince Siemer and ask how that’s working for him. Meanwhile I think I’ll have another glass.
Cheers.
ssshhhh, don't want to discourage him...
ReplyDeleteBravo - good post. Next will be that attention seeking mad woman Cactus Kate. NZ Herald have already cleaned her clock.
ReplyDeleteSlater is an obnoxious, immature, self-grandiosing blowhole. He yarps on about his mastery of "social media", yet his webshite is an ungrammatical ill-informed mess. Unfortunately, the suppression charges are exactly what he's been aiming for. Watch as he gloats about the site views. Oh! Here's a wiki for his defence! Oh! He's taken the wiki down! Perhaps because the four or five illiterate assholes who comment on his site have no understanding of the law?
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ReplyDeleteSlater cannot find a lawyer it seems. Jan 5 is just too inconvenient for the legal profession. Schadenfreude indeed!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous (II), I deleted your comment, because the last sentence was potentially defamatory. I'm not able to edit content out of comments, so it's all or nothing.
ReplyDeleteFor those who are interested, Anonymous (II) said:
"Interestingly, I know both Cameron and Odgers from previous times. I've seen an audience BOO only on two occasions: once, at the National Bank, when the Slater visage appeared onscreen during a corporate video (would you believe he worked on the f*cking "helpdesk"?), adn second, when dirty Cath got her LLB. I kid you not - the audience actualy booed. She'd had sonmething of a reputation at Law School for [the rest of this sentence has been deleted]."
Let's keep it clean, people... :-)
Apologies Scott, had a wee moment there. I've really grown tired of the shit those people (Cameron in particular - Cath is mild by comparison) fling around, but the best response is, I suspect, simply to ignore it. Incidentally, you might want to remove the blog link above. The blog was a brief venting of spleen, but was deleted after the author decided that she didn't really have the time or the energy for a prolonged shit fight.
ReplyDeleteWatch as he gloats about the site views
ReplyDeleteSo it has come to pass:
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/6644317/suppression-charges-boost-website-hits-blogger/
No worries, Anon II. I don't hold high opinions of the two persons in question, but I try to keep this site reasonably clean.
ReplyDeleteAnd I deleted that link, as suggested.