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PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters
MarkWhittington writes, quoting himself: "PETA is incensed over an article in the Huffington Post that details that organization's unsettling practice of euthanizing animals in a Virginia facility that many have assumed is a no kill shelter. According to the New York Post, PETA wants to sue some of the people who have left comments on the article. The problem is that, following the practice of many on the Internet, many of the comments are under assumed names or are anonymous. PETA is attempting to discover the true identities of their critics so that it can sue them for defamation."
PETA pushes the article's circulation into the stratosphere, via the Streisand effect...
The geek overstates the significance of the "Streisand effect."
The audience for news on the web is fragmented along ideological and many other lines and served by countless websites and blogs, each competing for the attention of some tiny fraction of the whole.
The story that captures the attention of Slashdot may not rate so much as a single line elsewhere,
Where is the "-1 Pedantic" moderation option?
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.