Privacy groups pan ‘cyberSLAPP’ing

“…Members of the ACLU, The Center for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others sent out letters to more than 100 ISPs asking them to ‘adopt policies protecting their users’ right to anonymous speech on the Internet.’ The complaint comes after years of what the privacy groups identify as ‘cyberSLAPP’ lawsuits – where a company files a suit just to discover the identity of their online critics – often in order to silence or intimidate them. In a cyberSLAPP suit, the target of anonymous online criticism typically files a lawsuit against a ‘John Doe’ defendant and then issues an identity-seeking subpoena to an ISP…

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