Judge: anonymous web comments don’t meet legal standards of libel or defamation

by BGR on September 5, 2008

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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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1 Frank M. Arouet September 5, 2008 at 2:31 pm

See book review in Thursday WJS about the role of anonymity in literature, letters and politics.

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