A friend told me a story.

A woman wanted her autistic kid to gain some life experience and asked the kid to buy a pizza. She claims that the pizza parlor owner ignored the kid and when the woman asked why is he doing it, the owner supposedly said that “it’s not a school, it’s a business”.

The woman was angry, so she sent a bulk e-mail, sharing her view of how things happened, and also opened a Facebook community about the matter. It reached the news and now the Facebook group has 25,000 members, and the pizza parlor owner has been called, among other things obviously, a “soup nazi”.

The pizzaman claims on the other hand that things didn’t exactly happen the way the woman described them. But that doesn’t matter, because human sense of righteousness is naturally on the mother’s side.

So, now everyone knows that the pizzaman is a “soup nazi” and a horrible human being overall. What can the pizzaman do to clear his name, if the right is on his side?

Well, the sad part is, basically nothing. However he would try to get his good name back, it would be doomed. Basically all he can do is change his name or die. Because even moving to another country won’t help, thanks to Google.

It’s not really about this pizzaman, although, if making pizza is the only thing he can do and he has lost all his customers, he would be in a very bad situation, too.

But this can happen to anybody – getting screwed over the internet, maybe rightfully, maybe not. And one can never ever clean one’s name after that, no matter what and how many times one tries.

Internet has made lives so easy. And it has made lives so hard.

What can one do, if someone libels one on the internet and it goes to the masses?

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