http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2008/06/30/judge-could-order-us-newspaper-to-hand-over-identities-of-anonymous-comment-posters/ Online journalism news Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2008/06/30/judge-could-order-us-newspaper-to-hand-over-identities-of-anonymous-comment-posters/comment-page-1/#comment-5524 baz Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:46:12 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=1436#comment-5524 Surely these comment posters aren't "anonymous" in the strict sense of the word, as they have registered on the site and have "handles" (“SAVE10543,” “hadenough,” and “aoxomoxoa”). That usually means the site would have a record of their details and even IP addresses from which they posted. Is this really news, that a site must had over user details to further a police investigation? I think your use of the word "anonymous" is more of a click-magnet. Surely these comment posters aren’t “anonymous” in the strict sense of the word, as they have registered on the site and have “handles” (“SAVE10543,” “hadenough,” and “aoxomoxoa”). That usually means the site would have a record of their details and even IP addresses from which they posted. Is this really news, that a site must had over user details to further a police investigation? I think your use of the word “anonymous” is more of a click-magnet.

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