Pseudonymous blogging under subpoena threat

by Duncan Riley

just for once Andrew Orlowski at the register has a story that is not just nasty, and an important lesson in possible defamation and blogging
Pseudonymous blogging under subpoena threat | the register
“But when Atrios captioned a (characteristically terse) post about Luskin with the phrase “Diary of a Stalker”, the columnist reached for his lawyer. Luskin objected to the caption and what he characterised as libelous comments made by posters to Atrios’ Demosthenes weblog. “

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  1. By xian posted on November 5, 2003 at 3:51 pm
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    uh, Atrios’ blog is called Eschaton, not Demosthenes…