The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) is on a mission to discover who posted 41 multiple - choice questions from the 2006 MultiState Bar Exam (MBE) on a Web log, according to this article, EarthLink Subpoenaed for Customer Records When
Anonymous Web Posting Reveals Bar Questions (4/20/07).
Not exact matches
The
anonymous author of a popular
Web site that claimed to identify manipulated images — and the scientists behind them — confirmed his identify this afternoon, a day after he removed previous
posts and announced that he would suspend
posting on the site following threats of legal action.
For example, that
anonymous post you left on the
Web site of your local newspaper?
In a recent
post on her
Web site, No Frakking Consensus, she provides excerpts from scientists, ethicists, and activists who excuse or even lionize Peter Gleick for stealing Heartland Institute budget documents, impersonating a Heartland board member, misrepresenting himself to bloggers as an
anonymous «Heartland insider,» and palming off as genuine — maybe also authoring — a fake climate strategy document in which Koch supposedly funds Heartland to keep opposing voices out of Forbes magazine, sell doubt as their product, and dissuade teachers from teaching science.
The New York Times ran an interesting article Monday about how certain news
Web sites and blogs have begun moving away from the once - standard practice of allowing
anonymous posting of comments on articles.
The first, over at Volokh, discusses a recent case out of Tennessee, State v. Cobbins, where a judge denied defendants» motion to require a media outlet to disable a portion of its
Web site enabling
Web users to
post comments (mostly
anonymous) about the pending case.
That is, apparently, what has happened to at least one unfortunate law student described in the opening paragraphs of this article, Harsh Words Die Hard on the
Web: Law Stuents Feel Lasting Effects of
Anonymous Attacks, Washington
Post (3/7/07):
Operators of newspaper
Web sites, blogs and chat rooms that allow readers to
post anonymous comments using pseudonyms do not have to readily reveal the posters» identities in defamation suits, Maryland's highest court ruled yesterday, further shaping an emerging area of First Amendment law in the Internet age.