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Anonymous Online Speakers is a case of first impression in the Ninth Circuit on the issue of First Amendment claims of anonymous online speakers involving commercial speech. The Ninth Circuit lowered the standard for plaintiffs who attempt to identify anonymous online speakers during discovery.
Examples of such work could include fan fiction or vocal performances. [21] People may get more objective evaluation of their messages, by not showing their real name. People are more equal in anonymous discussions, factors like status, gender, etc., will not influence the evaluation of what they say.
Some offshore bookmakers took bets on who the anonymous author was, with Vice President Mike Pence being the favorite at one site, while then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions led the field at another. [10] More than thirty administration officials, including the actual author Miles Taylor, denied authoring the editorial:
An unidentified man walked up to Alan Joyce, Chief Executive of Qantas airlines, and slammed a pie in his face mid-speech. Qantas Chief Executive is slammed with pie by anonymous man during speech ...
Doe v. Cahill, 884 A.2d 451 (Del. 2005), [1] is a significant case in the realm of anonymous internet speech and the First Amendment.While similar issues had been tackled involving criticism of a publicly traded company, [2] the case marks the first time the Delaware Supreme Court addressed the issue of anonymous internet speech and defamation "in the context of a case involving political ...
An illustration of a weasel using "weasel words". In this case, "some people" are a vague and undefined authority. In rhetoric, a weasel word, or anonymous authority, is a word or phrase aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague, ambiguous, or irrelevant claim has been communicated.
McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 514 U.S. 334 (1995), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an Ohio statute prohibiting anonymous campaign literature is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects the freedom of speech.
Speech rights were expanded significantly in a series of 20th and 21st century court decisions which protected various forms of political speech, anonymous speech, campaign finance, pornography, and school speech; these rulings also defined a series of exceptions to First Amendment protections.