Last January, the operator of RipOffReport.com, which is the Xcentric Ventures, LLC filed a federal lawsuit in Iowa looking to block any further investigation of its activities by Sac Country, Iowa District Attorney Ben Smith. He had indicted one ROR operative, Darren Meade for witness tampering and other charges. In addition to this, RipOffReport sought an injunction blocking Attorney Ben Smith from further pursuing the investigation and last week a federal magistrate recommended granting the injunction in part.

Apart from this, the court rejected the claim of RipOffReport since “there is substantial evidence suggesting that the plaintiffs materially contributed to the alleged illegality of the information at issue. As noted above, there is an undisputed connection between Magedson and Meade concerning the Richer case, as they have participated in a “common cause” to free Richer. Xcentric made substantial payments to Meade while he was gathering information and posting complaints about the case. Including complaints with titles that associate certain state’s witnesses with illegal and embarrassing conduct.”

RipOffReport attempts to argue that, although it paid Meade substantial sums it didn’t have any advance involvement. And this is one of the reasons why the court rejected the claim, noting that it could not believe that RipOffReport was blissfully unaware of what Meade was planning to post. Meade has testified that RipOffReport founder Ed Magedson directed him to make posts about Bennet Kelley out of concern that he might represent one of their adversaries.

Despite the fact that the record indicated that RipOffReport had conspired with Meade. The magistrate recommended granting the injunction since it found Smith’s actions to be retaliatory for their posting negative content about him on each of RipOffReport pages.
The court explained, “there is substantial evidence that Smith’s actions have been motivated, in large part, by statements made about him on RipOffReport. Smith admits that he has worked over a thousand hours and has issued over one hundred subpoenas during his investigation into RipOffReport. Smith presented no evidence that in his role of Sac Country Attorney, he has devoted similar time and resources to other investigations of potential misdemeanor offenses.

The finder of fact could easily determine that Smith is treating this investigation differently, and indeed obsessively, because he is angry and embarrassed by RipOffReport posts that have criticized and ridiculed him. But this ignores the fact that Sac Country is a tiny country with only 10,350 people.

Most small counties like Sac Country are not normally targeted for abuse by large websites so that this investigation would take substantially more of Smith’s time than prior cases. The court recommended limiting the injunction only to Smith such that it would not prevent the Attorney General of Iowa or a special prosecutor from investigating potential criminal charges against plaintiffs. It means RipOffReport is by no means out of danger of indictment.

If you want to know the opinion of the Court, please feel free to visit this website for more information:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/275219321/Xcentric-Ventures-v-Ben-Smith-Injunction-Order

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A worldwide gathering of learned people, lawyers, and activists drove by Australian Dr. Janice Duffy, American Jerome Almon, and a few subjects of the European Union are calling for Congress, government powers, and web crawler titans Google, Yahoo, and Bing to close down the website because of claims contained in a criminal arraignment against one of the webpage’s essayists in the condition of Iowa. Extra affirmations including the staggering impact the site have had on the military and veterans that are posted on RipoffReport.

As indicated by the Australian daily paper The Sydney Morning Herald, Dr. Janice Duffy has documented a common dispute against the Ripoff Report, Google, Yahoo7 (Australia), and Bing. The gathering has reached the U.S. Branch of Justice, both the House and Senate Veteran’s Affairs Committees, and approached internet searcher boss and organizers Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Marissa Mayer, and Bill Gates to inspect the issue and to address it openly.

The gathering likewise takes note of that the new Net Neutrality leads as of late went by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) don’t address the significant issues contained in the Iowa arraignment extending from data fraud, hacking, to digital blackmail. The association further notes that the main 3 vengeance porn proprietors, who utilized Ripoff Report as their plan of action, were all as of late indicted various wrongdoings as indicated by Fox News, ABC news, CNN, and CBS news (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/04/california-revenge-porn-site-operator-sentenced-to-18-years/).

Mr. Almon and Ms. Duffy caution that the disappointment of lawmakers, internet searcher CEOs, and controllers to act has prompted the tremendous hacking embarrassments that have shaken Home Depot, Anthem, Target, JP Morgan, and the late billion dollar bank hacking episode found by Russian digital security firm Kaspersky Labs as per CNBC. The association cautions of a Bernie Madoff-like miss by powers. As indicated by a late CNN review, trust in web security has dropped to an untouched low because of such significant hacking episodes. The gathering notes that a large portion of the bank and corporate programs started as spammers and retribution porn site proprietors. As per various media reports going back to the 1980s, Bill Gates conjecture the peril that spammers spoke to the internet and security.

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