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Judge Orders Idaho Newspaper To Identify Anonymous Commenter
Limits of free speech in the online age were upheld this week, when a district court judge in Idaho ruled that a local newspaper, the Spokesman-Review would have to turn over the identity of an anonymous commenter who has been sued for defamation by a local Republican Party official.
“While individuals are entitled to the right of anonymous free speech, this right is clearly limited when abused,” wrote Judge John Patrick Lester in the ruling, handed down in Coeur d’Alene on Tuesday.
Now the newspaper has 14 days with which to appeal or turn over the identity of the anonymous commenter, who posted on Huckleberries Online in February under the pseudonym “almostinnocentbystander.”