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  • Appeals court: First Amendment protects forum trolls too

    02/10/2008 7:47:43 PM PST · by gondramB · 52 replies · 204+ views
    Arts Technica ^ | February 7, 2008
    Anonymous trolls on the Internet are allowed to remain anonymous, a judge in a California appeals court ruled yesterday. Not only that, but they're allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights and speak their minds, no matter how scathing their comments may be. The court opinion reversed a previous decision that would have allowed Lisa Krinsky, COO of a Florida-based drug service company, to subpoena 10 anonymous Yahoo message board posters' real names. --- These posters regularly made what the judge described as "scathing verbal attacks" against these officers. This included referring to the trio as "a management consisting of...