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Masked Email Activist Can Stay Anonymous

Posted by samzenpus on from the guess-who-I-am dept.

Mitchell writes "The NewStandard is reporting that a Texas judge ruled in favor of an anonymous political activist who used a Yahoo! email account to notify the press and to potential voters about the wasteful spending practices of Texas politician Jimmy Cokinos. Cokinos lost relection, and tried to nail "recall_carl01" with a defamation lawsuit, but a judge threw out the bid since the emailed critiques weren't defamatory."

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  1. Private voting by eviloverlordx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pretty soon, some judge will rule that voting is private too, and you know what that leads to: freedom! Who knows when this madness will end?

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  2. I await the day by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    I await the day a judge orders slashdot to reveal the real identity of Anonymous Coward.

    "Which one, your honor, there's 2 grillion of them."

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