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UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity

Posted by timothy on from the firstname-lastname-at-someplace dept.

BoxRec writes with this excerpt from The Daily Mail: "A mother trying to identify a blackmailer who posted 'sensitive' details about her child on Wikipedia has won the right to find out who edited her entry. In the first case of its kind, a High Court judge has ordered the online encyclopedia's parent company to disclose the IP address of one of its registered users."

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  1. Somebody had to add it by kwiqsilver · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Go Office Space on it's ass!

  2. Re:remedial intellectual charity: by tjstork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a fundamentalist is someone who adheres to a concept WITHOUT EXCEPTION: free speech, the free market, the infallibility of the bible/ quran/ torah,

    Add: The environment. Peace.

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    This is my sig.
  3. Re:it's not whistleblowing, its blackmail by malkavian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Turn round to your significant other before a really important romantic evening, and say "Yes, your ass looks big in that, no, the makeup doesn't hide the wrinkles at the corners or your eyes and the cut of the dress makes you look pregnant."
    There, you have your honest and open world. Do you want to live in it?