“The Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled that Yelp users have no right to anonymity when they post negative comments about a business online. The ruling was handed down after the owner of a carpet-cleaning business said criticism about his business was not posted by customers.  ‘The tradition of anonymous speech is older than the United States,’ notes the Electronic Freedom Foundation. ‘Founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym ‘Publius’ and ‘the Federal Farmer’ spoke up in rebuttal. The US Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized rights to speak anonymously derived from the First Amendment.'”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/court-deals-blow-to-anonymity-and-first-amendment.html

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