Dallasnews.com: Court calls on news aggregator to reveal anonymous commenters

February 16th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Legal

A US county court judge has called on news aggregation site Topix.com to reveal identifying information about 178 anonymous commenters, who left comments on a story relating to sexual abuse allegations.

The site has until March 6 to comply.

Full story at this link…

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George Dearsley:Craig, it's being argued that Trinity only pa
JohnD:Not really, not when you consider hundreds of
Judith Townend:ooo, very nice, thank you! I've also started
jj:Another odd note: the address for http://www.
Philip John:Hey, thanks for the shout. I'll be rounding u
mgieva:Couldn't help but notice the "diversity" in t
Judith Townend:Thank you - I've corrected the text to make t
Lyn:Got to be a hoax. It's just too ridiculous (l
PCC:It is not correct to refer to the "PCC Code C

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