Is It OK to Blog About a Public Figure Anonymously?
Depends on what you say, it turns out.
Last week Judge Joan Madden ordered Google to identify the anonymous blogger whose site … slammed the fashion model Liskula Cohen. Madden found the blogger’s writing, including the assertion that Cohen is a “psychotic, lying, whoring … skank,” to be “reasonably susceptible to a defamatory connotation.” That is, Cohen has the basis for a lawsuit and is entitled to know the identity of the blogger in order to seek legal redress. Google complied, identifying the blogger to Cohen’s lawyer.
Source: The New York Times
