eclectica
2003-06-03, 10:03
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=18&ID=103437&r=1
A judge has ordered the operator of a raunchy Web site to stop posting details of an alleged sexual relationship he had with a former beauty queen who promotes abstinence and sobriety.
The temporary order forbids Tucker Max, 27, from “disclosing any stories, facts or information, notwithstanding its truth, about any intimate or sexual act” involving Katy Johnson, a two-time Miss Vermont who founded a “Sobriety Society” and has a Web site (http://www.katyjohnson.com/) of her own filled with tips on living a virtuous life.
Johnson, 24, acknowledges knowing Max but denies having a sexual relationship with him.
She sued Max last month, arguing that he was using her name and photograph on his Web site (http://www.tuckermax.com/) to promote his “career as an authority on ‘picking up’ women.”
Max’s attorney, John C. Carey, called the order “inconsistent with the freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution.”
“Tucker Max has the right to tell his autobiographical account of their relationship,” Carey said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. He said they would ask for the order to be lifted.
Circuit Judge Diana Lewis imposed the order May 6.
John Seigenthaler, the founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, questioned whether the order will stand. Federal courts have found that the same First Amendment protections that protect newspapers and television should be extended to the Internet, he said.
This case reminds me of the 2600 (http://www.2600.com/) magazine and website case, which was not allowed to either post the DeCSS DVD decryption code, or link to it. The restriction on linking was something they fought on first Amendment grounds, but they lost the case in the courts.
A judge has ordered the operator of a raunchy Web site to stop posting details of an alleged sexual relationship he had with a former beauty queen who promotes abstinence and sobriety.
The temporary order forbids Tucker Max, 27, from “disclosing any stories, facts or information, notwithstanding its truth, about any intimate or sexual act” involving Katy Johnson, a two-time Miss Vermont who founded a “Sobriety Society” and has a Web site (http://www.katyjohnson.com/) of her own filled with tips on living a virtuous life.
Johnson, 24, acknowledges knowing Max but denies having a sexual relationship with him.
She sued Max last month, arguing that he was using her name and photograph on his Web site (http://www.tuckermax.com/) to promote his “career as an authority on ‘picking up’ women.”
Max’s attorney, John C. Carey, called the order “inconsistent with the freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution.”
“Tucker Max has the right to tell his autobiographical account of their relationship,” Carey said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. He said they would ask for the order to be lifted.
Circuit Judge Diana Lewis imposed the order May 6.
John Seigenthaler, the founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, questioned whether the order will stand. Federal courts have found that the same First Amendment protections that protect newspapers and television should be extended to the Internet, he said.
This case reminds me of the 2600 (http://www.2600.com/) magazine and website case, which was not allowed to either post the DeCSS DVD decryption code, or link to it. The restriction on linking was something they fought on first Amendment grounds, but they lost the case in the courts.