New York judge orders Google to turn over identity of anonymous blogger
A now-defunct blog, Skanks in NYC, called a Vogue model a skank in a blog post, and this is apparently an ousting offense. This article gives no indication what legal argument the judge uses to justify this.
A Manhattan supreme court judge ruled that she was entitled to the information and ordered Google, which ran the offending blog, to turn it over.
Ms Cohen, a tall, Canadian blonde who has modelled for Giorgio Armani and Versace, went to court after reading the wounding anonymous comments on Google’s Blogger.com.
Entitled to the information? What an appropriate word for a Vogue model. The Huffington Post provides more on the legal argument:
In her decision, Judge Joan Madden wrote that, “the thrust of the blog is that [Cohen] is a sexually promiscuous woman,” and Cohen is therefore entitled to file a defamation lawsuit. Google would be forced to provide the blogger’s name in order for her to do so.
