{"id":123,"date":"2008-05-16T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T00:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2008-05-16T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T03:17:12","slug":"chicago-court-gag-order-on-theatre-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Judge Issues Gag Order on Theatre Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous verbal fisticuffs have erupted recently in the theatrosphere.  The discussion surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/donhall.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/review-skriker.html\" title=\"don's\" target=\"_blank\">Don Hall&#8217;s review<\/a> of Greyzelda Theatre&#8217;s production has been particularly volatile.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how this <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.isafake.org\/\" title=\"fake nick\" target=\"_blank\">gag order from a Cook County judge<\/a> in Chicago will be enforceable on bloggers as far away as <a href=\"http:\/\/theatrenotes.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"alison's\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> but just its existence adds a chilling effect on future discourse in the theatrosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago bloggers directly under the jurisdiction  of the court order include <a href=\"http:\/\/devilvet.blogspot.com\/\">Devilvet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/greyzelda.blogspot.com\/\">GreyZelda<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/prekk.blogspot.com\/\">Paul Rekk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/donhall.blogspot.com\/\">Don Hall<\/a>, <span dir=\"ltr\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoaninithaca.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trailing Spouse Blues<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/theaterforthefuture.com\/\" title=\"nick k's\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Keenan<\/a>, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/jayraskolnikov.blogspot.com\/\">Jay Raskolnikov.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how this court order really effects me or other bloggers in the rest of the theatrosphere, but until the legal ramifications are fully explored, it is probably best all theatre bloggers cease posting or commenting directly on this subject.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article of this case<a href=\"http:\/\/nick.isafake.org\/2008\/05\/16\/he-said-she-said-a-dialogue-that-never-happened\/\" title=\"fake nick\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;He said; She said: A Dialogue That Never Happened&#8221;<\/a>  and the recovered ghost comments in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.isafake.org\/\" title=\"fake nick\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/nick.isafake.org\/2008\/05\/16\/he-said-she-said-a-dialogue-that-never-happened\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous verbal fisticuffs have erupted recently in the theatrosphere. The discussion surrounding Don Hall&#8217;s review of Greyzelda Theatre&#8217;s production has been particularly volatile. It is unclear how this gag order from a Cook County judge in Chicago will be enforceable on bloggers as far away as Australia but just its existence adds a chilling effect on future discourse in the theatrosphere. Chicago bloggers directly under the jurisdiction of the court order include Devilvet, GreyZelda, Paul Rekk, Don Hall, Trailing Spouse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/?p=123\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratconference.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}