Richard Bartholomew — a friend of ConWebWatch who writes the excellent Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion blog — had a run-in with British anti-Muslim activist Charlie Flowers, and it temporarily shut down his blog.
Bartholomew had written a blog about Flowers in which he quoted comments Flowers made on his Facebook page. In retaliation, Flowers contacted Bartholomew’s U.S.-based hosting company and filed a complaint under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The host shut down Bartholomew’s site, restoring it only after Bartholomew deleted the offending Flowers post. Bartholomew declined to file a counterclaim because it would make his home address available to Flowers, who has clearly demonstrated himself to be vindictive.
The full story is at TorrentFreak. The original post is in Google cache for now.
Bartholomew correctly points out, “The notion that someone should be able forbid any quotation of their words is manifestly absurd, and if applied generally would make any kind of journalism impossible.”