Anonymity Of Internet Chat Rooms Argued Before PA Supreme Court
from the more-online-legal-issues dept
In Pennsylvania Supreme Court today lawyers are arguing over whether or not messages posted to an online chat room are akin to a public anonymous pamphlet, such as Thomas Paine's Common Sense. A Pennsylvania judge is trying to sue an anonymous online chatter for suggesting in a chat room that she did something illegal. AOL refuses to give up the name of the user, who the suing judge claims is guilty of defamation. AOL and other internet companies (supported by the ACLU) are claiming that the individual has a right to post whatever they want anonymously. What I'm surprised about, is that a Superior Court judge is apparently hanging out in AOL chat rooms - and then getting offended at what she sees posted there.
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Most efficient way to cancel an AOL account
No, the fastest way to close your AOL account is to go into a chat room and issue a random death threat. Chat up some mother and threaten to decapitate her 9-year-old daughter. Your account will be closed within 3 minutes, guaranteed.
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As for chat rooms, there are subtler, more interesting ways to infuriate people, without breaking any laws.
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thanks for the tip...
account (part of an intervention, ya know)
Now, I'll just auction of a "hit" on some random
parent's child.
...cool
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"Smart" people in dumb places
up in a an AOL chat room? I find that most
professionals outside of the IT profession are
completely clueless when it comes to the evils of
AOL and other large corporate ISPs... and seldom
know the virtues of the Internet (proper), in
general.
I suspect that you feel that because the person
is a Supreme Court Judiciary, they are somehow
"smart". Anyone observing the court's judgements
of the last 10 years know this isn't the case.
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