Seems that someone posted an offensive comment regarding a Vogue Model. She has won the right to force a web-blog to reveal the identity of the offensive poster.

While not necessarily applicable to us here at APC, it could certainly change the routine and abrasive activities that occur on the Internet.

Vogue model Liskula Cohen wins right to unmask offensive blogger

A Vogue cover girl has won a precedent-setting court battle to unmask an anonymous blogger who called her a “skank” on the Internet. In a case with potentially far-reaching repercussions, Liskula Cohen sought the identity of the blogger who maligned her on the Skanks in NYC blog so that she could sue him or her for defamation. A Manhattan supreme court judge ruled that she was entitled to the information and ordered Google, which ran the offending blog, to turn it over.

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Vogue model Liskula Cohen wins right to unmask offensive blogger - Times Online