wandaluzt

It's not in my name even there.

Thank you. The site domain is technically not owned by me anymore. The hosting provider has not been a problem.

It is the USA that I'm having problems with, Cloudflare a US company about to hand over my details to a UK based private individual.

I have now removed the post.

I reported on what I saw. It is not the sites finest hour and not what I set it up to do. There were also other people emailing in saying it happened to them. Unfortunately they had no evidence. The evidence was someone saying he did that on a public Facebook post that anyone could access.

Not at all. It was appropriate that allegations were brought to the fore so that they could be investigated by those appropriate. He chose to end his career by not standing. Would you say that about a national newspaper finding a clear allegation about a politician or celebrity and publishing it in the public interest?

I understand about the contact thing. They have had contact with me directly and via my host and Cloudflare. They have asked for information about the account from the time their story was published up until now. So it's not just about that. They can contact me, they just aren't getting the response they want.

I looked at monetising. It wasn't what I wanted to do. The cause was more important to me. It entered a phase where as someone below said, it became a 'gossip rag'. But then it grew up and started being a trusted source in the town it serves. I never imagined I would have to go to the lengths criminals do just to keep me safe from my opinions.

At least in the UK a lawyer would tell him whether he had a case or not. At least I'd be dealing with the UK court system where I have some chance of understanding it. I also have legal insurance. I do not genuinely believe it would get to court. Cloudflare just handing over details is just chilling. They could have just asked me to take the content down.

It was a clear as day allegation made by someone for everyone to see. There was no more research to do.

In fairness it was not what the blog was set up to do and have since reverted to cause. I was going to take the articles down but after being harassed felt less inclined.

I'd tell you on here but it might make my post here a bit too obvious as the person knows who they are.

It looks like they filed it themselves and are not using lawyers.

I intend to get off Cloudflare if they are going to behave like this.

The Register are actually doing a story on it tomorrow I hope.

Flagged? In what way?

I did think about blogging about it. Unfortunately I don't think it will help.

No, but you wouldn't expect them to just hand over a users data just because some individual doesn't like the opinion someone has of them. There are consequences for free speech I totally understand that. Unfortunately the consequences for me are not going to be good.

In what way? Unfortunately this is a last ditch desperate attempt. I've seen the CEO post here and thought I had to take the shot.