Texas judge gets it right
Jan. 20th, 2005 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sauergeekMasked email activist can remain anonymous, judge rules
A judge has correctly refused to unmask a critic of a politician, even though the criticism apparently cost the politician his reelection. The judge ruled that because the criticisms were not defamatory as a matter of law, the politician had no right to know who the critic was. This is an excellent development -- anonymous critics should not be outed without some demonstration that they've done something wrong.
A judge has correctly refused to unmask a critic of a politician, even though the criticism apparently cost the politician his reelection. The judge ruled that because the criticisms were not defamatory as a matter of law, the politician had no right to know who the critic was. This is an excellent development -- anonymous critics should not be outed without some demonstration that they've done something wrong.
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Date: 2005-01-21 08:26 pm (UTC)And we all thought privacy was dead...