California's 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled (warning: PDF) that it's totally ok to call people names on the internet anonymously. "Senor_Pinche_Wey" said mean things about the President and CEO of SBFC, including the scurolous allegation that she "has fat thighs, a fake medical degree, 'queefs,' and has poor feminine hygene."
Despite the best arguments of Ms. Krinsky's lawyers, the Court of Appeals refused to order Yahoo! to turn over the true identity of this mean, mean meanie Senor_Pinche_Wey. The court concluded that while his statements were "unquestionably offensive and demeaning to plaintiff, [they] did not constitute assertions of actual fact."
So feel free to use your anonymous accounts to call people names.
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