David Hanks and Brian Goudie - first it was Google for allowing cyber harassment - now it is Bing, Yahoo and Facebook!

Well I have been deliberately posting on this blog recently and watching as the anonymous internet trolls post comments.

These people hide behind internet profiles with made up names such as Tommy Truthsearcher, Jules, Sam Kane, Ally, Sam Thai, The Weapon - all spend all their time making comments and threats from the comfort of their internet connections.

Fake Facebook profiles, fake Wordpress blogs, fake Blogger sites, fake Google Plus profiles - the lot!

It comes under the umbrella name of 'internet harrassment' or #cyber harrassment. In fact as of today we have put #Bing, #Yahoo and #Facebook on notice that they will be prosecuted for fake profiles!

#cyberharassment is a criminal offence in most countries, but difficult to identify offenders, although there is a case in Ottawa, Canada  that has just been solved that went on for 12 years.

Easy to make threats when you are anonymous isnt it? But, last week my friend #DavidHanks and I filed a case against Google, and our lawyers have now contacted #Google in Bangkok - the internet giant is expected to consent to a Court subpoena being issued for Google to provide all possible identifying information to help us track down the bloggers who are now using fake profiles and fake name.

Technical experts say that even if the bloggers are using VPN technology we should be able to identify originating IP addresses. If we can get an IP address, we will then subpoena internet service providers - to cut the technical talk basically we are going to locate these people and prosecute them.

Now ask the question - why do they use fake untraceable accounts with fake photoshopped profile photos?

There are two reasons, firstly they are low life cowardly scum bags who would never challenge face to face, and secondly they know if they can be identified we will prosecute them under Thailand's Computer Crimes Act.

The ones who hide behind fake names, you can decide - low life cowards not man enough to use real names, or credible commenters.

Brian Goudie and David Hanks - more cyber harassment cases to be filed.

Bangkok, 4th August 2014

Last week my good friend #DavidHanks and I filed a case against Google in Bangkok Central Criminal Court - more will be filed in the next few weeks.

David Hanks

The cases indirectly involve a journalist working in Bangkok, Andrew Drummond, who was already convicted in Pattaya Provincial Criminal Court earlier this year on related charges.

Our case (s)  allege that a large amount of false material and 'photoshopped' images now appear in search results, and that a number of fake 'profiles' have sprung up, and that there has been an incessant campaign of #cyberharassment that has now continued for nearly two years - we believe this is being carried out by a maximum of around 4 or 5 individuals.



We have already positively identified four of the individuals, and criminal cases have been filed against two of them already - in fact I am writing this blog just before I head off to Koh Samui Court for a case today. Two new cases are being filed within the next two weeks against two other individuals who we now have details for.

Our lawyers have now also contacted #Google, and the internet giant is expected to consent to a Court subpoena being issued for Google to provide all possible identifying information to help us track down the bloggers who are now using fake profiles and fake names - technical experts say that even if they are using VPN technology we should be able to identify originating IP addresses. If we can get an IP address, we will then subpoena internet service providers - to cut the technical talk basically we are going to locate these people and prosecute them.

#cyberharassment is extremely difficult to prosecute due to the anonymity of the internet, but this case in Ottawa, Canada shows it can be done.

Following the first case being filed against Google, our lawyers have now put #Bing, #Yahoo and #Facebook on notice that they are next - there are now dozens of fake images, fake profiles and fake blogs throughout the internet, and we have received hundreds of harassing emails and messages, including threats of violence.

There have even been disgusting comments that involve my three year old daughter - and her mother has now also filed a criminal case to prosecute the culprit - that's right, a three year old being forced to file a criminal case to prevent #cyberharassment - that is how low these people are.

The #cyberharassment has now become so serious that the Serious Crime Squad in Victoria, Australia is laising with the Australian Federal Police and the Cyber Crimes Unit to attempt to track down an individual believed to be in Australia who is allegedly responsible for the photoshops.

#BrianGoudie with David Hanks and our lawyer Nattawat Damnaphoen at Koh Samui Court.

UK police are also now involved following harassment of my family in the UK, and charges are expected under the UK Prevention of Harassment Act  (the web site at the centre of the controversy is registered in the UK).

This is the link to the story about the filing against Google.

Brian Goudie - Internet Harassment and 'trolls' - and making Google take notice!

Brian Goudie - taking on Google

Over the past 18 months I have been the subject of a calculated and coordinated campaign of internet harassment.

My name is Brian Goudie, I work in Thailand, and I have decided to break my silence and start a 'name and shame' campaign - and I hope the people that I name will try to sue me, as I have a carefully documented dossier of evidence that has been painstakingly assembled to record every, post, comment and email - the file is massive!

You may ask, all of this data has been recorded for what purpose?  The answer is simple - criminal actions under Thailand's tough Computer Crimes Act, and potentially future proceedings in the UK under the Prevention of Harassment Act.

The main site at the centre of the campaign has a whois address in the UK, and UK law requires us to show there was a 'course of conduct' involving more than two instances of harassment - in my case there are hundreds.

I know exactly where it started, and where the epicentre of the campaign lies - a 'news' site where the administrator/owner has allowed about a dozen internet 'trolls' to post comments on his site, and then those trolls have posted elsewhere using fake profiles, and the material has gradually spread throughout other social media.

The owner of the 'news' site is a convicted criminal having in February of this year being sentenced to 4 months in jail (Suspended for one year) for similar behaviour against two of my friends. Following that conviction he has recently been ordered by Pattaya Court to post bail in another case, with another half dozen or so cases in the pipeline.

The seemingly never ending campaign of harassment has resulted in over two hundred 'news stories' written about just three individuals with hundreds of comments on the central site and other social media such as Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter and other more obscure sites.

The comments from the trolls utilise just about every insulting word in the English language!

The burning question - why just three singled out when there are many others on the site - well easy answer, the three of us decided what wss going on was just not right, and filed Court cases - as soon as the first case was filed, the 'news stories' increased, often misreporting decades old stories.

Recent allegations result in the journalist and his trolls taking on the role of judge, jury and executioner - even before there is a real issue to be reported -more on that later.

More recently, my friends, family, ex-girlfriend and current girlfriend have been receiving comments, messages and emails from the journalist and the trolls telling them how terrible it all is, and how terrible their future will be.

The 'news' is of course not real news, it is a mixture of scarce facts held together by ourright lies, half truths and insults. It has included invasions into my private life.

Any journalism expert will tell you a journalist would never alter a news photograph ie use photoshop to electronically alter the photo - but using electronically alteredmimages is the particular specialty of this 'journalist', now with dozens of altered photographs appearing on his ' news' site.

And yes, before you ask, I am taking him to Court for the photographs, and all that did was make him post more fake 'photoshop' images and post them repeatedly.

A credible journalist, abiding by true journalism standards, would never allow a photoshopped image to be posted - the UK Editors Code of Practice specifically forbids this (our journalist is from the UK).

David Hanks - victim of internet harassment.

Late last week, my colleague (David Hanks) and I decided we had had enough of the trolls and instructed our lawyers to file proceedings against internet giant Google - the 'news' site is hosted on Blogger. That case is expected to first come to Court in Bangkok in July 2014.

We are not however suing Google for the 'news' site, but instead for search results, and also for allowing trolls to set up fake profiles with no certification of ID. Our friend the journalist gets a mention of course, as he had previously written an article referring to the use of SEO to 'manipulate Google'.

Under Thailand's tough Computer Crimes Act, if I cant find the troll, I can sue the service provider - in this case mainly Google, but we are also now looking at Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Bing, Youtube, etc.

And now to internet trolls, what and who are they, and what motivates them?

I really like this image, as in my opinion the trolls truly are pathetic, and if you see some of the things I post about them you will see I dont agree with traditional theory of suffering in silence. I have found that hitting back and calling them for what they are has dampened their enthusiasm.

Morevover, we have now identified one of the trolls, and he will face Court on June 2nd 2014.

Recently, a study found that some internet trolls my actually be mentally ill.

A troll called 'Ben' who was interviewed by news.com.au is recorded as saying:

"It just makes me happy when I can make someone angry. It sounds weird but I kind of feed off the Internet trolling—the act of writing deliberately provocative or hurtful things on message boards and social media—seems to be everywhere these days, ...............The angrier I can get them, the better I feel," he told news.com.aU

'Ben' said the worst thing he ever did was vandalise the Facebook memorial page of a young girl who had committed suicide. "I wrote, 'How's it hanging guys'."

'Ben' doesn't feel any remorse, and strangely doesn't consider his actions bullying despite claiming he probably wouldn't have started trolling if he had not been bullied at school.

The whole campaign of internet harassment in my case centred around the 'news' site, and all the posters on the 'news' site would also post on my Blogger and Facebook and various other social media sites.

Initially, I stayed quiet and took the advice of many to try to ignore it and report it to Google - and it got worse, and the number of fake profiles increased and the number of posts mushroomed - some days as many as 10 to 20 posts would drop in my inbox!

And what did Google do when I reported all of this - nothing!

I filed many reports with Google, and recently filed a 20 page detailed complaint and received the same standard response from Google every time - Google is not a mediator of content and is protected by the Communications Decency Act Code 220 (defamation) - although our US based legal team says it is not likely to be protected in the current case.

If you make a report to Google they are likely to tell you they are not responsible for the content, but a number of Court cases around the world have shaken that presumption.

 Recent examples of Google's worsening Court woes are cases in the UK such as  Tamiz v Google and in Trijulka v Google in Australia.  The recent case in Spain in the European Court of Justice dealing with the 'right to be forgotten' only adds to Google's woes.

Because internet harassment is a new area of law, many jurisdictions are ill equipped to deal with it, although in the jurisdictions I am interested in, the UK, Thailand and Australia news laws such as amendments to the Prevention of Harassment Act (UK) and the Computer Crimes Act (Thailand) are starting to address the issue.

In the US, the Communications Decency Act makes much of the conduct I will write about is a US Federal Offence.

And today many thanks to +Spinosa +knutsa01 +Ally +samthai +theweapon +jules +tommyweapon +tommythruthsearcher + Spinosaj without whom my case against Google would not be possible.

Brian Goudie - Understanding Internet Harassment

Brian Goudie

Over the next few months I will be posting on this blog and documenting my experience with what can only be described as an ongoing coordinated campaign of internet harassment, and I intend to document my own personal experiences, as well as my now ongoing battle with Google,

Firstly, what is internet harassment? There is no clear definition, but according to Wiki Cyber Stallking and Internet Harassment has a wide range of different ways of manifesting.

In my case, it all started off when a journalist wrote a story about me in September 2012 - the journalist in question is now a convicted criminal and in the next few weeks is facing dozens of criminal charges.

My case is not unique, I have two close friends who have also been attacked. My good friend David Hanks was also attacked.

David Hanks

In my case, dozens of fake photos have been posted all over the internet along with dozens of allegations that my friend refers to as a 'myriad of lies'.

Initially it was very embarassing, especially the fake photos,  and did a great deal of damage to my life and business - now the harassment continues, but I have learned how to deal with it - criminal prosecution of the people involved.

For many months, I was subjected to a vicious campaign of harassment and intimidation, with death threats, threats of physical violence, fake profiles being set up in my name on Facebook, Wordpress, Google Plus, Blogger - everywhere!

Then these 'trolls' started sending messages and emails to my friends and family - at the same time the 'journalist' wrote over 100 articles witten on a 'news' website.

I took the owner of the 'news' site to Court, and the harassment increased, with the fake profiles commenting on the 'news'  site also leaving comments on my Facebook, Google Plus and Blogger posts. Many of the comments can only be described as disgusting.

Then, all the fake profiles started using the fake photos in their profiles, and postimg them in Google Plus albums, with backlinks and tags to my profile - this is still going on, but the trolls are now much more careful masking their locations and IP addresses.

The whole campaign of internet harassment centred around the 'news' site, and all the posters on the 'news' site would also post on my Blogger and Facebook.

I stayed quiet and took the advice of many to try to ignore it and report it to Google - and it got worse!

The accusations and names and threats I wont repeat here, but in months to come the details will be reported as the Court proceedings progress.

And what did Google do when I reported all of this - nothing! I received the same standard response every time - Google is not a mediator of content.

But what of Google? Google will try to tell you they are not responsible for the content, but a number of Court cases around the world have shaken that presumption, a recent example of which in the UK is Tamiz v Google and in Trijulka v Google in Australia.

Because internet harassment is a new area of law, many jurisdictions are ill equipped to deal with it, although in jurisdictions I am interested in, the UK, Thailand and Australia news laws such as amendments to the Prevention of Harassment Act (UK) and the Computer Crimes Act (Thailand) are starting to address the issue.

In the US, the Communications Decency Act makes much of the conduct I will write about is now a US Federal Offence.

And today many thanks to +Spinosa +knutsa01 +Ally +samthai +theweapon +jules without whom my case against Google would not be possible.

To be continued.

Brian Goudie.
25th May 2014

Brian Goudie - My fight with Andrew Drummond

Well, well, well here we are back for New Year - only the Second of January and the drivel has started already.

Brian Goudie

In a year where I have been attacked relentlessly by a 'journalist' - Andrew Drummond - a man who seems to have to constantly u-turn when he finds out what he wrote before was absolute drivel.

So for the first time I will come out on this blog and I will say it - Andrew Drummond writes tabloid trash and lies - what he does not know he just makes up, and I can prove it!

Here are the lies - any statement Andrew Drummond can prove is not a fabrication by him I will retract. Fair?

1. About me.

That I have been on the run from a criminal case in my home country of Scotland for twenty years, and an arrest warrant 'expired' - the truth is the case was dismissed in 1998. Documents from Scottish Authorities have been provided to Pattaya Court, the case has been finished for 15 years.

Comment : There never has been an arrest warrant in Scotland, this case has long since been dismissed, the story written by Drummond is a complete fabrication.

UPDATE : He wrote it again - there is no warrant - oh too hard, Andrew make it easy - post a copy! Forget the AAT, you know that was dismissed by the Court of Appeal, so no point in going over that old one again.

Brian Goudie - with my passport.

2. About me

That my passport was 'seized' by Pattaya Court in November 2013 - absolute nonsense, yet even when asked to correct it Drummond refuses.

I even provided Drummond with a dated photo of me with my passport.

Comment : My passport is with me and always has been - the story of the seizure of my passport is a complete fabricaton.

Gregory James Miller

3. About Greg Miller

Drummond reports I was a 'paedos lawyer' in the case of Greg Miller, in fact the lawyer was Sanya Namnaphon = Miller pleaded guilty on ten charges of child abuse and got 38 years - harsh yes, but he had a team of Thai lawyers advising him - nothing to do with me!

Comment : Mrs Miller has actually told the Court we never lied to her, and we hope we can talk to Mrs Miller in Court this month to resolve this case.

UPDATE : This case is to be sent to the Region 2 Court of Appeal for review of a 'serious legal error'.

John Jepson

4.About John Jepson

 Drummond reports I defrauded a man called John Jepson - John  Jepson has never paid me a single penny - in fact he has borrowed more than USD 100,000 from me so he could pay off his mortgage - I cant wait for this to come to Court!

Jepson was represented by no less than three highly qualified Thai lawyers - and never paid a penny.  I paid all of Jepson's bills and paid his mortgage of USD 100,000.

Interestingly Jepson is suing me, but not the legal company he has a contract with.

Comment : Mr Jepson is in for a few nasty surprises as we have uncovered evidence of the real reason he is suing in this case.

Ian Tracey at his arrest - in the street, not in a room!

5. About Ian Tracey

Drummond reports that I 'set up' a man called Ian Tracey - Ian Tracey was arrested as a result of a warrant issued by Rayong Court of Appeal in a case where the Court had sent documents to the wrong address!

The warrant for Tracey's arrest was issued two years before I knew him - some set up!

I helped Ian Tracey find a lawyer and the lawyer lodged the documents with the Court of Appeal - he has been released now - but I am still wrong. Drummond previously said of Tracey in two stories :

From Drummond's site on 3rd September 2013 :

'Last week Thai police found a wanted child abuser hiding in a room below Goldie's in the ‘Jaggy Thistle’ – the registered office of Goldie’s firm Alba Law.

Londoner Ian Charles Tracy, 47, had been on the run on for nearly a year on charges of abusing two boys aged 10 and 12, in Pattaya. Not only was Tracy living on the same premises as Goldie but witnesses say he had actually helped Goldie acquire the bar in the first place.

Tracy had little visible means of support in Pattaya, which is as famous for its young ‘boy bars’ as well as its thriving heterosexual sex scene. He earned pocket money making such things as steak and kidney and chicken pies and selling them to British run bars.

But he also had a voluntary role visiting foreigners in the local prison at Nong Plalai just outside Pattaya and reported back to Consulates – including the British one – on their condition and complaints.

He said he worked for a local children's charity ‘The Mercy Centre’, a fact that is unlikely to be confirmed'

Comment : Tracey has now gone from 'wanted child abuser' and 'on the run' to 'victim' - unbeleievable! Tracey was jailed as a result of the lawful order of a Thai Court, and at the time he was arrested was being followed by Thai police and had been under surveillance since the time of the arrest of Greg Miller - he had been warned of this by his own 'contact' in the Thai govenment.

From Drummond's site on 1st May 2013:

'Last year Pattaya Police arrested Briton Ian Tracy at the premises of Brian Goudie formerly known as the 'Jaggy Thistle' now the Paradise Bar in Jomtien Complex, Jomtien, Chonburi. Tracy a former prison visitor for the 'Mercy Centre' is alleged to have also found clients in the prison for Goudie in particular the man Goudie speaks abouthere. Tracy is doing four years for child abuse. In this photo Tracy is giving the finger while Goudie remains in the background'

From Drummond's site on 2nd January 2014:

'Goudie’s former girlfriend and assistant B K (sic Boonrod Baikrathok) confirmed that Goudie had called police in Banglamuang to report Ian Tracy’s presence at the Jaggy Thistle. She added that this occurred after Mrs. Barbara Fanelli Miller had left the premises to return to the United States.'

Comment: Tracey was arrested in August 2013, a fact confirmed by Drummond own story quoted above on 3rd September 2013, therefore was arrested at least three months before Miller returned to the USA - another fabrication!  Miller was there on the day of the arrest!

And B K (Boonrod Baikrathok) was the person who went to the Court to get the documents for Tracey, and was the one always in touch with Thai police! Tracey even gave her a power of attorney.

6. About Nattasuda 'Neung' Sripawit

Drummond says there are photos of me on social network sites with my ex-girlfriend Nattasuda 'Neung' Sripawit.

Drummond previously referred to her as being a p*****te - you cant get much lower than calling someone that. Now he wants to champion her cause.

Neung and I have had our differences, but I would never do anything to harm her or her reputation. Neung is a fantastic girl, just has had a few 'blips' in her path, but if she ever needs anything she knows who to ask.

Neung has posted photos on Facebook, as have I - so what! I also have Flickr and Picasa and there are photos there of me and Neung. The photos were posted when we were together! They are ours, we are entitled to post them!

Drummond has reposted many of the photos on his site illegally and without permission and they have got into search engines - he forgets to mention that of course!

Comment : I previously used Facebook, Google and various other sites under my old email address Ram****@gmail.com, but all of these accounts were compromised in June of this year when three of my computers and backup drives were stolen from my office along with a large number of personal photographs, videos and documents - many of these photos that were on my stolen computers now appear on Andrew Drummond's site - you ask the question!

7. About Boonrod Baikrathok

Drummond quotes on 2nd January 2014:

'Since she (Nang) had turned against Goudie (right) she has been the subject of a vicious campaign on the internet where personal and intimate pictures have been posted of her on a blogspot site and a Google+ site.'

Nang now has at least two cases to face in Court, and has already been convicted and sentenced in another case in September this year in Pattaya Court (nothing to do with me and boy was that kept quiet).

I saw some photos of Nang on the net last month, but they were certainly not pornographic, and I actually discussed it with several people last month as I had seen these photos before and did not know how they could have possibly come to be on the net - then I remembered my stolen computers (see above).

In fact, the only photo of Nang that I have (above) I got from the net - it has been on Drummond's site, and a number of other sites.

Comment : I previously used Facebook, Google and various other sites under my old email address Ram****@gmail.com, but all of these accounts were compromised in June of this year when three os my computers and backup drives were stolen from my office along with a large number of personal photographs, videos and documents - many of these photos now appear on Andrew Drummond's site - you ask the question!

There may be some photos of Nang out there, and I was alerted to them but the computers have been out of my control since June 16th, and the premises ransacked in mid July - all reported to police.

8. Fake Profiles and Social Networking

Over the last two months I have been in constant contact with Google, Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, Yahoo, Bing and a number of other sites.

Only last week, I had two fake profiles removed about me, one from Google and the other from Facebook. This follows other profiles removed previously. A number of removals are now pending.

Only last week nineteen (19) videos were removed from Youtube, see here : 

Brian Goudie and David Hanks force Youtube to remove videos.

There are so many profiles that have been set up using my name,  but are posting fake photoshopped images - images that had previously appeared on Andrew Drummond's site, and then these images were reposted on Google, Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, etc. Fortunately, lawyers have sourced the original copyrighted images before being photoshopped and this has been reported to their owners.

I have identified at least ten fake profiles in Google, all of which post comments on Drummond's site, and these fake profiles have been posting and reposting these images all over the net. Some of the profiles have now been deleted, and Google's legal department in California are now involved.

The difficulty is, according to the internet lawyers we are using in the US, that it is near impossible to track the source of these fake profiles, who the person is, where they live, or even what computer they use - and the source of the photos may never be known.

Google have told our lawyers they just cant tell us who is doing this, and they cant stop it - Google do not ask for ID when a profile is made and dont check names - so 'The Weapon' 'Tommy Truthsearcher' 'Horse Doctor' have all slipped through the net, however, all of this has now been reported to the Royal Thai Police - in fact only yesterday the first case was accepted and is reported on Case Watch Thailand here:

Andrew Drummond and Dr. Mike Goulet reported to Police.

In the New Year, myself David Hanks and Drew Noyes intend to file cases against Google, Yahoo, Bing (Microsoft Search), and a number of individuals. We have already identified at least three web sites in Thailand that will be receiving summonses to appear in Criminal Court very shortly.

Google have been advised as follows:

'In some case the same false allegations have been repeated up to thirty times over 58 URL's, all on the same site.

The repeated publication of false and defamatory material is unlawful in the UK pursuant to the Defamation Act 1996 and the Malicious Communications Act 1998.

The use of copyright photographs taken from 'Facebook' is a criminal offence against the Copyright Act.

The hosting of a site that permits an ongoing campaign of internet harassment on a Google server is contrary to the following laws:

U.S.C. ¤ 875(c) – This deals with threats to kidnap or harm people. It was amended to include threats via computer networks.

47 USC sec. 223. – This deals with cyberstalking, which typically does not include an overt threat of kidnapping or harm.

18 USC § 1361-2, – This prohibits malicious mischief'


.................the ongoing campaign of internet harassment is being undertaken with the sole purpose of creating irreperable reputational damage, but also demonstres that is it being undertaken maliciously, and explains why the same false allegations are repeated time and time again, and why fake photoshopped images designed to embarrass and humiliate are being posted repetitively to ensure the images are refreshed constantly and are often name differently on different URL's to ensure the same images appears in search results on more than one occassion.'

Comment : I previously used Facebook, Google and various other sites under my old email address Ram****@gmail.com, but all of these accounts were compromised in June of this year when three of my computers and backup drives were stolen from my office along with a large number of personal photographs, videos and documents - many of these photos now appear on Andrew Drummond's site - you ask the question! 

Google, Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo, Youtube are just so dangerous as they permit fake profiles to be set up - the stupid thing is they only ask for proof of ID when you want to take it down - doesn't help me much as Drummond has posted my passport on his site so anybody can use it!