Ken Zeran

What might you have done differently if you were in the position of artist Ken Zeran, mentioned in this chapter?

Ken Zeran was brought up in the seventh chapter of "Blown To Bits". Someone had posted Ken's number on an AOL advertisement about t-shirts about the bombing in Oklahoma City. However, Ken did not having anything to do with the t-shirts and Ken would get harassment calls from radio stations, people, and everything about the advertisements. He asked AOL to remove the advertisement, but the same person re-posted the advertisement with his phone number again. Once AOL told Ken that they would prohibit the user re-posting the information again, they did not do so, therefore Ken had to call the police to surveillance his house for protection. Once radio stations got the right story, they apologized. Ken attempted to sue AOL but AOL was not held at the same standard as the poster, therefore he lost.

I would do the same thing except maybe take it a little further. Get more protection and somehow use a social network to get his situation out to the public. He could have gotten people to follow his social network to have them become aware of his false identity that this person was presenting.