Judge: Media must reveal IDs of online posters

Chicago Tribune ^ | March 6, 2011

[Slings and Arrows]

IANAL, but this suit sounds like a fishing expedition with just a touch of shakedown.

[TxDas]

I think you can post any opinion you want as long as it is not anonymous.

[TxDas]

I like the British system where if you sue and lose you have to pay all the expenses for both sides.

So I agree, an institution with deep pockets can sue you beyond all reason regardless of who is right.

What we need to do is change the tort laws so the common man does not have to lurk in the darkness and blog anomalously to tell the truth about some evildoer.

[lentulusgracchus]

You are free to write what you want, but you’re responsible for damages. Rule of law 101.

Rule of law, or rule of SLAPP? Remember Lillian Hellmann (Communist playwright) and novelist Mary McCarthy (who criticized Hellmann on Johnnie Carson's Tonight Show).