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Identity of Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Not Protected by First Amendment

Posted on May 27, 2011July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Jonathan D. Frieden writes:

In Faconnable USA Corporation v. John Does 1-10, 2011 WL 2015515 (D. Colo. May 24, 2011), the United States District Court for the District of Colorado rejected a ISP’s motion to quash a subpoena issued to discover the identity of anonymous editors of Wikipedia.  Plaintiff alleges that the anonymous editors violated the Lanham Act and comitted trade libel and commercial disparaging by falsely posting that plaintiff is a support of Hezbollah, a Shiite Islamist militia and political party which has been designated as a terrorist organization.

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