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Debunk Alternative Medicine Provider; Have Him Get Your Website Taken Offline
from the yeah,-that'll-work dept
Apparently, in his quest to convince the world that his alternative medicine practices are worth 9,999 euros, Joseph Chikelue Obi missed out on learning how the Streisand Effect works. Obi got upset about the website Quackometer which was making fun of Obi's claims. Rather than, you know, proving them wrong or responding to the charges, Obi had his "lawyer" send a threatening letter to Quackometer's ISP who pulled the site. The article linked here does a nice job of chronicling Obi's run-ins with the law and police investigations over the years, including various charges of very questionable medical practices, which certainly seems like relevant factual information. I wonder if he'll go after The Register for posting it. The Register also points out that the lawyer who signed the letter getting the ISP to pull down Quackometer does not appear to be a registered lawyer in the UK.
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Irony can be pretty ironic
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Hmm
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'Bad' ISP
While the ISP has 'pulled' the site if you go to its homepage - http://www.quackometer.net/ - if you go to the blog page http://www.quackometer.net/blog, you get a directory listing.
Seems not to be the brightest web host around...
Dr.E
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streisand effect? again?
That's the second one in 1 week.
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Re: 'Bad' isp.
http://www.quackometer.net/default.asp
works, but it seems some of the site is messed up..
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Re: 'Bad' isp
http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/01/joseph-and-andrew-obi-international-men. html
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lawyers only
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