UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity

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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Re:WARNING - DAILY FAIL

[Anonymous Coward]

Does the U.K. actually have any newspapers that aren't tabloids these days?

Does the left in the U.K. still try to dismiss anyone who isn't as left as they are by labeling them as "far-right" and "foaming-at-the-mouth"?

Re:remedial intellectual charity:

[Lord Kano]

yet according to you, this is protected free speech

Especially when there really is a fire.

your problem is that you are a free speech fundamentalist.

Almost... Your problem is that I'm what you call a free speech fundamentalist.

I am principled. I understand how rare that is in today's world. You likely don't encounter people like me very often.

• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The thing speaks for itself. The supreme law of the land prohibits any abridgment of the freedom of speech. The constitution is crystal clear. You attempt to cloud the issue to separate people from their rights. Your muddied thinking leads free men to slavery. It leads to oppression. Orwell saw you coming long before even your parents were conceived.

You are probably 22 years old. Old enough to have given up on some of the idealism of your youth and still too young to realize how much you do not know.

Haven't you finished that movie yet?

LK

Re:dude

[Lord Kano]

Another self-important liberal elitist douchebag, I see.

The Constitution is more important than the Bible or the PETA charter or some secular humanist manifesto or whatever load of shit that you've filled your head with.

This living constitution bullshit is a modern invention. The Constitution means what it says. There is a method, a procedure to change the constitution. I'll clue you in, it doesn't involve allowing random liberal douchebags to invent new meanings for it.

You are what Lenin called a useful idiot. You happily, gleefully march down the road to intellectual and actual slavery. It was assholes like you who went all of the way in Milgram's experiments. You have only fluid principles, which is bad enough but you have the audacity to be hostile to others who do not share your ethical fluidity.

LK

Douchebaggery

[Lord Kano]

Grasping at straws? Hardly. I'm describing you perfectly.

You do not care for the ideals of the men who envisioned and wrote the constitution. You view it as an means to control other people.

Of course other people must be controlled, by you because in your liberal elitist douchbag brain no one is capable of handling the burden of freedom.

So, did you finish that movie yet?

LK

Re:WARNING - DAILY FAIL

[jez9999]

It's posts like yours that make me wish Slashdot didn't ban modding in the same story as you post in. You're an idiot that always copy/pastes this trash and gets modded up by your zealot supporters, and the Daily Mail is a decent publication that at least occasionally publishes a decent story. This is one of them.