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Ex-Model Sues YouTube to Reveal Identities of Anonymous Posters

By Andis Kaulins

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At the AOL News Surge Desk, Carl Franzen reports that Ex-Model Sues YouTube: The Beginning of the End of Anonymous Comments?

LawPundit previously posted about this very serious modern problem at:

Pogue Interviews Palfrey at NY Times: Internet Cyberbullies and Anonymity: The Megan Meier Cyberbullying Act

Anonymous Heinous Postings Directed at Two Female Yale Law School Students Lead to Revelation of Poster Identities : Free Speech Law in Need of Change

The proper legal standard to be applied here in our opinion is simple: anonymous posters can not be accorded "privacy" rights that result in the denial of "privacy" rights to victims.

One must also distinguish rightfully protected "political" free speech from anonymous "everyday" speech used to inflict wrongs on others under the cloak of anonymity. In no case should the latter speech be protected in any way.

Full post as published by LawPundit on August 22, 2010 (boomark / email).

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