Judge: anonymous web comments don’t meet legal standards of libel or defamation
September 5, 2008
A Montana Judge just ruled that anonymous web comments on a newspaper web site are protected from disclosure by that state’s Shield Law. He also questioned whether anonymous comments…”have enough credibility to meet legal requirements of libel and defamation.”
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