{"id":3185,"date":"2010-02-01T09:55:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2010-02-01T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:55:48","slug":"repostupdates-on-dotph-vs-versomina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/01\/repostupdates-on-dotph-vs-versomina\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Updates on dotPH vs. Versomina"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Updates on dotPH vs. Versomina<br \/>\nBy Rico, 9:09 am Thu Jan 28 2010 &#8211; Announcements, Featured &#8211; 2 Opinions<br \/>\ndotph-logoHere\u2019s an update written by a friend of mine working for dotPH. It details what\u2019s happened so far with the company\u2019s legal battle against Versomina, and made me reconsider my stance on blogging and libel.<br \/>\nEveryone is a champion of the sacred right to free speech \u2013 but how many of these well-meaning souls will still do it when faced with a harrowing, expensive lawsuit? Not to mention the fact that they will get a grand total of nothing for the effort?<br \/>\nVery few, I imagine. dotPH is one of them. It fought for the right to free speech \u2013 it is still fighting for somebody else\u2019s right to free speech against a company that will sue a pair of shoes if it knew that it could get something out of the case.<br \/>\nForgot it? Let me jog your memory. An anonymous person set up a blog called Alimuom using dotPH\u2019s blogging platform, I.ph. The blogger aired his grievances against a company, Versomina, claiming that it abused its employees and sued them if they tried to leave. Joel Aquino (lawsuit-happy owner of Versomina, also charged with a criminal case by the NBI) got wind of this and asked dotPH to take down the blog. Valuing the inherent right to free speech, Joel Disini (dotPH CEO) refused.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/technogra.ph\/2010\/01\/28\/updates-on-dotph-vs-versomina\/\">Updates on dotPH vs. Versomina<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates on dotPH vs. Versomina By Rico, 9:09 am Thu Jan 28 2010 &#8211; Announcements, Featured &#8211; 2 Opinions dotph-logoHere\u2019s an update written by a friend of mine working for dotPH. It details what\u2019s happened so far with the company\u2019s legal battle against Versomina, and made me reconsider my stance on blogging and libel. Everyone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/01\/repostupdates-on-dotph-vs-versomina\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Updates on dotPH vs. Versomina&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}