the legality of the material which has been commented out in this post has been disputed. the plaintiff alleges that all copies of this post must be removed from blogs which have copied this material.
many bloggers and blogreaders (bloggees?) may have not realized this, but a quiet moment in the history of the singaporean blogosphere was marked last week. as far as i know, convexset is the first person who has retracted a statement made by him about one of his superiors at work. in the wake of calls to dooce the unfortunate cz, this event marks a watershed in singapore blog history.
the question of whether convexset had to write that apology, or whether he did so willingly, or volunteered to do so from his own free will, is really secondary here. what matters is that he recognized that he had (unwittingly or otherwise) crossed over a hidden boundary in an angry mood and triggered a response from the big boss himself (convexset was thinking of becoming one of His scholars), and convinced him that he had written a post based on incorrect premises, and that he had written an apology and retraction. work and blog touched base and for the first time that i know of in the singapore blogosphere, provoked a less than enthusiatic response from the workplace.
Saw this issue raised at Acidflask initally. And is mentioned at, trompeloeil.
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Thanks for the plug. Please read my latest posts for a factual correction.
So is it convexset or Acidflask being threatened with legal action? Or both?
Convexset, as far as I know, has resolved matters. We'll leave it at that.
To my best knowledge, Acidflask has been threatened with legal action over a post/commentary he made over convexset's matter.
I assumed that acidflask and convexset were two blogs by the same guy.
So who received the notice, both of them or one threatened.
It is worrying either way and I think they have continued to post on the matter, trying to update us without keeping the offending posts on line.
No acidflask and convexset are two different people - or at least, one VERY good actor.
Convexset, to my best knowledge had a one-to-one with the person he blogged about. I infer that he was threatened with litigation (in the sense of "I could have sued you") but wasn't. Matter resolved.
Acidflask, on the other hand, has received notification. I have no idea what the form of it is, save that it does not appear that actual litigation has commenced.
I thought Convexset is a local student who just returned from student exchange; Acid flask is a graduate student in America.
Molly Meek
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