Lawyer Speak

I found a repulsive website yesterday with hugely nasty hate-speech towards women on it.  It included things like comments about women deserving to be killed (literally) for using the court system to get custody of their children.  There was no real discussion of what the particular man was complaining about--and believe me, I am all for Father's Rights here!  My own father was not active in my life as a child, and I firmly believe that unless there are cases of abuse, or serious criminal activity, both parents should be a part of their child's life.  The website was just a hate-filled, nasty festival of vitriol and negativity. 

When I signed up for my own website, oh so long ago, I signed an agreement that guaranteed that I would not put up certain content.  This includes hate-speech.  If I am found to have such things on my site, the company can terminate service at its discretion.  Indeed, it is my understanding that since I agree to it in front, by signing up, they don't really even have to tell me the particulars.

Knowing this, I thought I would report said hate-speech filled website to the webserver where it was hosted.  (And no, I will not link to this site on the blog, nor tell you its name. I will not be party to it finding more hits.)  Generally, web servers do not know the content on their customer's websites, so a report, in my opinion, should be enough for them to take a moment, send someone out to see what's on the page, and then shut it down for being disgusting.  It's pretty clear to me that the blatant nastiness on the website would not be considered "good" by anyone.  Even the people who like the site have to know it's hurtful and offensive.  That's the point of the site, in fact. 

So today I got a legal lawyerspeak email that basically said I would have to go way out of my way by providing specific "incidents" (I had provided three direct quotes of the website already-- I don't know how many more they would need because it said "each incident."  I suppose I am supposed to quote each and every page of the hateful website).  It also basically implied that I would have to be party to even going to court for this sort of thing.

Now this just disgusts me.  This website server host surely knows it can, and should, stop service for this a-hole's website.  It is so beyond the pale of decent behavior that any decent person in charge would cancel it, and the general user agreements we all sign when we sign up for this sort of thing would cover the server's legal butt quite effectively, and the a-hole who owns the site would have nothing he could do about it.  But clearly, the bragging that web servers do not tolerate hate-speech, which is illegal, is all a bunch of hot air. 

These are probably the same kind of folks who allow spammers to fill up our mailboxes with hundreds of junk emails a day, costing businesses lots of time & energy and annoying the crap out of the world. 

It's just not worth it to me to pursue this butthead for his nasty woman hating.  The amount of energy it would suck from my life to go through the process this lawyer letter is demanding of me is just too big, and too much.  It's that way on purpose, I'm sure. 

The Wiccan rule of threefold says that anything you send out into the universe comes back to you three times.  So you're only supposed to send out positive things, and not do any kind of harm to someone because it'll come back on you.  I sure do here and now and in writing send this wish/prayer to him:  may he and the lawyers who support his nasty, illegal activities be visited with the same sorts of energy he inflicts upon anyone who has the misfortune of stumbling upon his website.  Threefold.