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IP: Judge Says Online Critic Has No Right to Hide
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 06:51:08 -0400
From: David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com> Subject: Judge Says Online Critic Has No Right to Hide To: farber () cis upenn edu (David Farber) http://www10.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/cyber/cyberlaw/09law.html June 9, 2000 By CARL S. KAPLAN People accused of anonymously posting libelous statements online may find it harder to keep their real-world identities secret following a judge's ruling in a libel case in Florida. ............. The judge ordered that Yahoo and America Online must comply with a subpoena and unveil the names of the lawyer's clients so that they may be formally named as defendants in a libel case. The ruling, if not reversed on appeal, may serve as a precedent supporting the notion that anonymous speakers on the Internet, when informed or notified about pending subpoenas seeking to unmask them in the context of libel trials, do not have much of a chance of quashing the subpoenas on First Amendment grounds. It may also serve to chill the overheated climate of financial message boards on the Internet, which feature pseudonymous postings celebrating and castigating public companies and their executives. ...................... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz () nrk com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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