Where Are You?

If you're reading this, we're back online and you don't have to wonder what the heck is going on. The deal is this: on Friday our lawyer got a note from Willson/Bailey's lawyer asking us to remove "defamatory" statements from this site. That's Friday, May 27, by the way.

There are basically two kinds of defamation: statements which are not true, and statements which are true but which the subject had reasonable expectation of remaining private. The latter really cannot apply to business dealings, which is why things like confidentiality agreements and non-disclosure agreements exist. We had signed no such agreement with Willson/Bailey.

So, that means they thought there was something untrue on the site. Looking through our posts that mention them, I could not find anything that is untrue, or a place where we said anything with willful disregard for whether it was true or not. We figured they didn't have a case at all, but you know what? We wanted our foundation done, and they were not able to make any kind of statement about which parts they believed to be defamatory, so we took the whole site down. Now it's back up, if you're reading this.

I refuse to lie by withholding the truth. Willson/Bailey threatened to sue us for writing honestly about our dealings with them on this site. That's where we've been. Now read on for the saga, and maybe by the time it's done it will have a happy ending.

posted by ayse on 06/02/05