The Epic Saga of David Doria on the Internets
The Epic Saga of David Doria on the Internets
Report #: 139
Date Reported: Monday, June 13, 2011
Status: Past Incident
Severity: High - Cyberstalking
Primary Weapon: Cross Site Stalking
Specific Location: Riverside
City/Local Area: Inland Empire - Riverside and San Bernardino Counties
State/Territory: California
Region: United States
In late 2009 I started getting angry emails from David Doria in Riverside, California about a report someone had written on one of my websites accusing him of having a disease. Eventually the situation escalated into ridiculous emails, hundreds of comments, a news story, a lawsuit, and a cross site stalking incident.
I can't remember the first time I got an email from David Doria, but I know it must have been a long one. The man could have been a best selling author by now if he had just used his time constructively instead of bothering me with his problems. When he first started complaining I responded to him like I do with most people, but he objected to the sites record removal policies more than anyone else ever has. He started off with some basic arguments related to known pitfalls of std testing, but eventually his messages escalated to the point of becoming ridiculous. In one messaged he demanded $150,000 and $3,000 a day if I did not take the report down. I told him his monetary demands were more ridiculous than Dr. Evil and his $100 Billion in Austin Powers, but even though he stopped sending me monetary demands things just got weirder after that.
From January of 2010 into March he started feuding with Mike Basciano and some woman on the comment boards of his profile as well as a site called Internet Ownage where a profile of him still exists. Eventually I had to kick Basciano off the site for violating the TOU by accusing Doria of a crime he was never convicted of. I told the news in New York state what Basicano did and he ended up becoming the subject of a news story. Despite deleting his parents address from comment boards and banning Basciano he still kept trying to use the behavior of commentators as grounds to get the report removed. Unfortunately I could not remove it because despite how much misconduct had occurred none of it was done by the author.
I don't recall ever hearing from him again until July or August of that year. At that point the author had removed the report for some reason. Doria used the removal of the report by the author in an effort to persuade me to release information about that user. I denied his request because I never release information on users in good standing and that includes users who deactivate reports because I do not want users to fear correcting a mistake that they make, so if a report is deleted clean results are needed to violate the user. He did send me image files that he said were pictures of clean test results, but that was not an acceptable means to send results at the time and even now the sites policies only allow attorneys to send results electronically on behalf of clients. Eventually he said he lost the lawsuit because he didn't have enough evidence and he blamed me for that.
He also started complaining about Google results for the report that got removed, but they were not my fault. Someone had posted a copy of his report on another website just long enough for Google to index the page before redirecting it to my site.
Already furious over losing his lawsuit he began demanding that I remove his threatening emails from the threats section, but I refused because they were too funny. Then he started staking me from site to site for a short while spamming comment boards with accusations of giving people malware into every news story he could find about my site. When I shut down the threats section his emails were removed and I redirected the old pages to this summary.
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