On Really Fighting For Free Speech

Mark has a pay-pal button and an address up at Section 15 if anyone wants to help out with his case against Wayne Crookes. The details are here or, from a slightly different perspective, here, but the notion that Crookes has "put the whole Internet on trial" is not too far wrong.

I'll be mailing a cheque myself today, and if I can dig some Canadian Tire money out of my car's glove-box, a 2nd donation will follow. I would ask that Mark et al not reveal the exact amount of my donation when it arrives, as intimations of great wealth (an estate in both town and country, etc.) are a part of the BCL mystique and I don't want to blow the game.

You Want To Help A Canadian Blogger Fighting For Free Speech?

Send your pennies to this guy.

A couple of years ago Mark got caught up in the Wayne Crookes "Libelpalooza" and, although the case died in a B.C. courtroom, Crookes has appealed and there are many bills still to pay. You can get the more details on Mark's particular situation re his blog, but one of the worrying things about Crookes' efforts is that he has sued people (Michael Geist, specifically) for linking to a site that linked to another site that contained allegedly defamatory material.

Now that's scary.