Reply #16: He is raising money to pay his legal expenses--and also as a [View All]

[tblue37]

fundraiser for the ACLU and the IMEU:

http://kaplanwatch.blogspot.com/

To the poster who said he needs more information to decide whether the blogger should be supported, the young man's website (link above) contains plenty of infomation about the case. Here is some of what he wrote:

Lee Kaplan presented one allegation against me during the trial regarding defamation. In this regard he claimed that my website had the phrase "Lee Kaplan is a douchebag" and linked to another site with his face photoshopped on to gay porn. Had these allegations been true, he very well might have had a legitimate claim against me. However, these allegations were false and he must have known when he presented them.

My website does NOT contain the phrase "Lee Kaplan is a douchebag." However, this spoof of my website on YTMND does (http://leekaplanwatch.ytmnd.com). Lee Kaplan printed this screenshot out and submitted it to the court as evidence, claiming that he got it by taking a screenshot of my website. He further lied and claimed that when clicking on the phrase, it would take you to another page on YTMND with the pornographic photo (http://doucheparty.ytmnd.com/). However, if that phrase was indeed a link to that page, it would appear in the same color as the other links. There is no way anybody could mistakenly claim that the link existed because if you go to the first YTMND site, nothing on the page is even clickable! Kaplan must have known that the phrase was not actually a link, and that the two YTMND sites were not even connected. And he definitely must have known that they were not on this blog.

The important things are: 1) the material he claims is defamatory was never on my website, nor was it anything I was involved in authoring or disseminating; and 2) he knowingly lied about how he found the materials and lied when explaining their source. For those who are interested, Lee Kaplan is on the ytmnd site in the first place because he threatened to sue its owner over another site on their server mocking him.

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I want to also mention that I had brought a witness who was competent in computer affairs (a degree in computer science from Brown University and a recent PhD at Berkeley) and could have testified these things. But the judge did not allow him or my other witnesses to speak.