Posted by David Post:
Um, Talk About Trackbacks!
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_05_17-2009_05_23.shtml#1242831292
Take a look at [1]this webpage, purporting to report on a posting of
mine here on the VC. Here's how it starts:
David Post at the Volokh Conspiracy writes: Code�s a exceptionally
momentous promulgate, in my purpose (and, I about, objectively
speaking, in the purpose of melodious much actually interested in
reasoning encompassing law and balance on the Net). Lessig got a
kismet of things honourable in Code; most fundamentally, the
inclination encompassing which much of the promulgate is organized
- that �code is law� on the extensive network - is a exceptionally
nonsensical bounteousness a certain, and still a downright a
certain, and it has been utter to a queer blow the whistle on of
exceptionally advantageous reasoning in the gift. Code got some
things out of line, too - most fundamentally, when Lessig argued
that it is abortive (and maybe still dangerous) to talk
encompassing cyberspace�s �nature.�
[The actual original posting is [2]here] It's pretty bizarre -- as
best I can figure it, somebody took my original posting and ran it
through some sort of nonsense-generator to produce the text shown
there -- it's English, and it bears some relationship to my original
posting, but it makes absolutely no sense. [along the lines of Noam
Chomsky's famous sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously,"
designed to illustrate sentences that can be perfect grammatically but
semantically nonsensical]. Surprisingly enjoyable to read, actually .
. .
As to why someone might want to do this, I'm less clear. And inasmuch
as this is a legal blog, one might raise the question: is there a
cause of action here? For "false attribution" under the Lanham Act,
perhaps? False light publicity? [No, I'm not thinking of suing, or
even complaining about it, though it is something of a shock to see
something like this attributed to you on the Net; I assume that anyone
who stumbles across this would realize pretty quickly that whoever
this "David Post" might be, he surely didn't write this . . .]
References
1. http://tinyurl.com/otmv59
2. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_05_17-2009_05_23.shtml#1242574821
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