Obi v. Netcetera [1]

Dublin-based alternative medicine practitioner Dr. Joseph Chikelue Obi sent a cease-and-desist letter through his "adviser" to Netcetera, the web hosting company for Dr. Andy Lewis (a.k.a Le Canard Noir), who provides skeptical commentary on alternative medicine on his Quackometer [2] blog. The letter complainted about two posts -- "Right Royal College of Pompous Quackery" published September 28, 2006, and "Ethical Quackery, the Monarchy and Kate Moss" published October 12, 2006.  These posts were critical of Obi and the Royal College of Alternative Medicine, of which Obi is the provost.

Obi alleged that the posts defamed him and the Royal College. The letter threatened to seek one million pounds per day in damages if Netcetera refused to take the offending posts down. The basis for this large sum of damages was not specified.

Netcetera complied with Obi's demands, but the articles have been reposted by other internet users at various locations, including No Nonsense! [3]  Fellow skeptical blogger Orac is also calling for readers to repost the items [4].
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A similar course of events played out three months earlier, when the Society of Homeopaths successfully demanded that one of Lewis's articles be taken down from Quackometer. See the CMLP database entry, Society of Homeopaths v. Netcetera [5]. Lewis now says that he is looking for a new web hosting company.