Rob’s E-Mail to Danielle Citron, A Law Professor Who Wrote a New York Times Article on Revenge Porn

Set forth below is the text of an e-mail that I sent to Danielle Citron at the University of Maryland Law School on September 24, 2013:

Danielle:

My name is Rob Bennett. My bio is here.

I saw your name in the New York Times article on revenge porn. Thank you for doing the important work you are doing!

The article suggested that the book you are working on may address internet harassment in general and not just revenge porn in particular. If that is the case, I can tell a story about internet harassment that is truly jaw-dropping in scope and that affects everyone living in the United States today.

To understand my case, you need to understand a bit of background re the history of our growing knowledge of how stock investing works. There are two major schools of thought: (1) The Buy-and-Hold Model, which is rooted in the research of University of Chicago Economics Professor Eugene Fama; and
(2) The Valuation-Informed Indexing Model, which is rooted in the research of Yale Economics Professor Robert Shiller. The Fama model is dominant today. I advocate the Shiller model. My web site has more material explaining the  implications of the Shiller model than any other site on the internet.

An individual who was embarrassed when I let people know that he got a number wrong in a retirement study has waged a 11-year smear campaign against me with the aim of making it impossible for me to earn a living from my work on the internet. Thousands of community members at various discussion boards and blogs have expressed a desire that honest posting on both points of view be permitted on the internet. But his Goon Squad disrupts conversations wherever they are held on this topic. Numerous site owners have reacted in fear of what will be done to them if they allow the issues to be discussed and have banned posting on the implications of the Shiller model at their sites.

I spent 16 months working on research with an academic researcher with a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton. The researcher (Wade Pfau) was thrilled with what we accomplished. He told me that our research product was worthy of publication in the Journal of Finance, the top journal in the field. These
internet Goons threatened to send defamatory e-mails to Wade’s employer with the aim of getting him fired from his job if he did not stop pursuing this research. Wade had seen what had happened to me and agreed to stop publishing similar research (one study had already been published in a peer-reviewed
journal at the time this happened).

If you have an interest in learning more about the story, I have extensive  documentation of the entire 11-year history of the matter. Please just send me an e-mail letting me know and we can set up a time to talk by telephone.

Here is an article giving background on the investing issues:

http://arichlife.passionsaving.com/about/

Here is an article giving an in-depth report on the Wade Pfau matter
(please note that there are links to reactions from numerous academics at the end of the article):

http://arichlife.passionsaving.com/the-buy-and-hold-crisis/academic-researcher-silenced-by-threats-to-get-him-fired-from-his-job-after-reporting-on-dangers-of-buy-and-hold-investing-strategies-teaser-version/

Here is an article in which I set forth 101 comments of my fellow community members expressing
a desire that honest posting on these important investment topics be permitted:

http://www.passionsaving.com/investing-discussion-boards.html

I wish you the best of luck with all your future endeavors!

Rob