anonymous commenter on billy dot com is facing a defamation lawsuit now this
person obviously posted under a pseudonym however
a quart order has %uh indicated that Philly dot com does have to release date
the private information %uh this individual so he could face
sometime in court now John J Doherty is the person who was going after this
little anonymous commenter p is actually the powerful head
at the local 98 up the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
it will be quite difficult being a butt but that no one may we still on a long
day but it's old school
well you get the point obscenity the union's up in the country
okay so he's going after them in October 2012 already sued over a comment posted
2 months earlier on a daily news blog described a plot public feud involving
Dority
the comment identified already by his well-known nickname
johnnie dog and called him the pedofile so that when he was upset about he sees
that as defamation so is going forward with this lawsuit
now pretty soon be anonymous poster and his lawyers subpoenaed Philadelphia
Media Network
Philly dot com parent company to supply the person's identity
so look I got a lot of sympathy for
John Dory I like that is by a local nine year they're nice brother Noel job
Electrical Workers ability you know is Johnny doc
I all the sudden he's from New York but anyway I
good and it sucks that you got call this name and that's a low blow as UNAMA sky
it's easy to do an
and hope my hope to gather nobody paid attention that ridiculous charges Center
another hand do this the internet great like people called crazy stop
all the time nonstop this is the one
anonymous comment I don't know that I would agree on a course for
yet so i i think is really interesting that the judge has asked Billy dock on
the hand over the information because I kinda shows you that
if you're posting as a troll and you think that it's not a missing you don't
have to worry about any consequences
it turns out that you could face up some consequences for it
but at the same time I mean he has to prove damages in this defamation case
and I'm not entirely sure how was gonna prove damages
especially because I don't believe that a comment on an online forum
doesn't any type of damage your reputation I think that it's already
generally known
the people right crazy shit under an anonymous you know
name RR whatever moniker without really like meaning it like there's usually no
credibility or legitimacy to what their part yeah
so i download the president I mean let rules be trolls
you know a I know that I E Inc in extreme cases they might be a closer
case
rate given somebody's posting over and over again they set up a whole blog
forward
and it seems has a air officials you an answer in this case is the one stupid
anonymous car nobody believes those comments anyway
right so I I don't know the precedent where they gonna go and
invade the guys privacy asiana said that by the way everybody knows
air in every great nation is said that about johnnie doc great
I but and idk find out who he is and getting news
life and it makes me uncomfortable but but there is an interesting point to be
made
about people who do post things like letting somebody writes a blog under a
pseudonym
any in the blog there's some serious death amid defamation there right
so if you're accusing Amanda being a pedophile a child molesters on like that
back can cause serious damage that person's reputation
you google let me look them up would say it's a future employer
and that kinda blah comes up I'm pretty sure that you know
an employer probably saying that better not hire him even though there's really
no way of confirming whether or not this is true
well you if you remember we cover the extreme case of the crazy woman who kept
making evaluations but this guy she dated
right yes worship professor something I think so yet any and she were a blog
after blog
very specific charges that people could be easily believe
that would turn out to be totally the made up because she
was angry at him for not going out with her longer which turned out to be the
correct decision apparently
not so to to me that's a different case and I i think is
you're well within your rights to find out who that is stop that deformation
and all that right in this case if you gonna go after every anonymous comment
to you can be a really busy guy
you know and they could be an excuse to on earth everybody's identity online
which has a downside because those around us are identities yes they're
annoying sometimes the former trolls
we also sometimes real information break to those anonymous identities
so overall I I would rule the other way in this case