YELP ORDERED TO DISCLOSE THE IDENTITIES OF AUTHORS OF ALLEGEDLY - TopicsExpress



          

YELP ORDERED TO DISCLOSE THE IDENTITIES OF AUTHORS OF ALLEGEDLY FALSE REVIEWS An appeals court has ruled that Yelp must disclose the identities of seven anonymous reviewers of a carpet cleaning business who did not appear to be actual customers. The Virginia Court of Appeals found no First Amendment violation when the business, Hadeed Carpet Cleaning, could not find customer records that matched the negative reviews. “The freedom of speech—and within this, the freedom to speak with anonymity—is not absolute,” the court said in an opinion released Wednesday. “If the reviews are unlawful in that they are defamatory, then the John Does’ veil of anonymity may be pierced.”
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:37:09 +0000

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