The more serious it is publicly taken, the more incentive for the author (who could be some guy in Eastern Europe for all we know, well beyond the reach of any legal recourse) to redouble his/her efforts. Someone has spent a considerable amount of time and effort to make the biggest possible splash. Publicly making waves about it is just playing into the splasher’s hands.
So I advocate no public engagement on this matter whatsoever, doubled with a consultation with a specialized (not a run-of-the-mill) lawyer. Also, I’d look into the account who made the original post. The posting history (just one other post with “concerns”) and then this random “stumbled on this slanderous noname internet site”-type post, coupled with the ludicrous slant (“doesn’t look good”!?) would make me wager at considerable odds that OP is involved in the matter. Good news, in that case: check your IP logs, turn the IP address over to the police (if that’s what the lawyer advises, which he probably will). Since the account had some activity in the past, I doubt the poster consistently used a proxy.
The more serious it is publicly taken, the more incentive for the author (who could be some guy in Eastern Europe for all we know, well beyond the reach of any legal recourse) to redouble his/her efforts. Someone has spent a considerable amount of time and effort to make the biggest possible splash. Publicly making waves about it is just playing into the splasher’s hands.
So I advocate no public engagement on this matter whatsoever, doubled with a consultation with a specialized (not a run-of-the-mill) lawyer. Also, I’d look into the account who made the original post. The posting history (just one other post with “concerns”) and then this random “stumbled on this slanderous noname internet site”-type post, coupled with the ludicrous slant (“doesn’t look good”!?) would make me wager at considerable odds that OP is involved in the matter. Good news, in that case: check your IP logs, turn the IP address over to the police (if that’s what the lawyer advises, which he probably will). Since the account had some activity in the past, I doubt the poster consistently used a proxy.