UK Judge Rules Against Anonymity of Message Author A UK High Court judge has ruled that two web sites must reveal the identity of a person who allegedly posted defamatory comments about an ISP. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1231000/1231419.stm [Editor's (Murray) Note: It is nice to know that the operators required that the damaged party get a court order and did not gratuitously give up their customer's identity. It is possible that in the case of political speech the UK courts might be willing to preserve anonymity. I think that the US courts will do so. However, that is the best that we can hope for. I think that in all other cases anonymity in the Internet is as good as dead and not reliable even in the case of political speech.] -- -- ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm@cupserv.org