It seems the recently troll-proofed blog “The Feminist Breeder” experienced something of a snag yesterday in its grand scheme to keep out anonymous haters:

Website Bidness: There was a technical error that caused the site to offer a “free for life” subscription option this morning, and y’all were registering like gangbusters before we found it.

Announcing that “if you registered for a free account in that time, the account has since been deleted” because it’s “not fair to those who’ve already sholeed out their cash for the site”, Gina instructed folks to “please re-register for one of the paid options”. When users asked why she didn’t honor the oops by simply contacting the registrants with a free coupon to re-register, Gina snarled:

Because registrations were ANONYMOUS. I have no way of knowing who those people were or verifying that they registered during that time period. Because they were Anonymous.

Gina went on to repeat that  “people registered anonymously”, and she “cannot allow that to happen” before launching into yet more self-martyring blah blah about how she doesn’t “do this to get rich” and reminding everyone for the umpteenth time that she has “given away more free memberships than I can even count anymore”.

No clarification has been put forth on whether she only deleted anonymous registrations, or everyone who registered for free during the glitch.

Glennon, runs some mommy blog, announced today that she and her husband have separated:

Craig and I are separated now.

We are still a family…

She explains she has “to be very careful” because “half of this separation story” is her husband’s, and saying, in a nutshole, that her kids are getting too old to have their privacy violated by mom writing about them on the internet. She then went on to ramble about raising a “new dream sail” and some other metaphorical mumbo jumbo.

The separation revelation comes on the heels of  a post begging readers to show up for her book tour appearances.

Gina of The Feminist Breeder, has haters and don’t you forget it, is apparently facing a lawsuit from another birth blogger. Dr. Amy at The Skeptical OB has informed the internet that she has filed against Gina for “unlawfully sent false notices (called “takedown notices”) under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and for tortious interference with my contracts with webhosts”.

The history of their public online battle was summarized by GOMIBLOGer Viola_Aurea:

OK, so Gina wrote this post about how she’s learned soooooooooo much after being a doula at 20 births.

Dr. Amy responded with this post, basically saying, “If you’ve learned this much after 20, what do you think you’d learn after a few thousand?” It really wasn’t terribly mean, by Dr. Amy standards.

Gina then responded with a photo of herself flipping Dr. Amy the bird, and saying, “I don’t want to leave you without something you can take back to your blog and obsess over, so here’s a picture of me.”

Dr. Amy then wrote about it (and included the photo, which is now gone) in this post.

Gina THEN proceeded to scream “Copyright infringement!!!!” and send Dr. Amy a letter demanding money, which she wrote about in this post. (The letter was originally posted but later deleted.)

Dr. Amy’s husband, who is a very big-deal lawyer, wrote back to Gina and told her she didn’t have a case. Gina then repeatedly filed DMCA takedown notices to Dr. Amy’s host (and then her new one, after she switched hosts), which she detailed here. She also started a legal fund so she could go after Amy. It was VERY clearly an attempt to abuse DMCA in order to shut Amy up. Gina was also encouraging other people to fill out forms saying that Amy had “stolen” (aka quoted, with proper citation) their stories.

Then, Dr. Amy countered with this suit…

From what I can sort out (so sorry, so not a lawyer), Dr. Amy’s suit appears to primarily seek to stop Gina from continuing to chase her site off the internet. Dr. Amy states:

I have sued only Gina. I have absolutely no desire to sue anyone else who may have submitted a frivolous DMCA complaint or has given Gina authority to file one on her behalf. However, I will avail myself of any remedies the law accords me, should I deem it necessary.

It is highly likely that I will have to move my site to yet another host. As I have said before, The Skeptical OB will be here next week, next month and next year. Nevertheless, having to move hosts again — thanks to Gina’s malicious attacks — is a burden neither I, nor my readers, should have to undergo.

There doesn’t seem to be any response on TFB at this time. It will be interesting to watch this unfold, and to see what implications it could have for a person’s right to comment on publicly available blog content.