{"id":237889,"date":"2010-01-27T01:14:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100126\/0759327901.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-27T01:14:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:14:27","slug":"israeli-court-supports-anonymity-for-online-commenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237889","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Court Supports Anonymity For Online Commenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the US courts have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090227\/1807363929.shtml\">quite good<\/a> about protecting the anonymity of online commenters, very few other countries feel the same way.  However, Roni Evron alerts us to a ruling in Israel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1144846.html\" >that also protects the anonymity of blog commenters<\/a>, ruling that the site doesn&#8217;t need to hand over the IP addresses of commenters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8220;The good of online anonymity outweighs the bad, and it must be seen as a byproduct of freedom of speech and the right to privacy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The court didn&#8217;t necessarily say that commenters could never be revealed, but that courts have to be careful to measure the impact:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nAvraham suggested looking at issues such as how extreme the allegedly damaging remarks are, whether the attack was systematic or a one-time phenomenon, and how seriously a reasonable reader would take the comments.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100126\/0759327901.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100126\/0759327901.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100126\/0759327901&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=bf9fc374614cf70ab87b3f408986a681&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=bf9fc374614cf70ab87b3f408986a681&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=-l6EGw0zPVk:nmBAadu3BCw:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=-l6EGw0zPVk:nmBAadu3BCw:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=-l6EGw0zPVk:nmBAadu3BCw:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/-l6EGw0zPVk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the US courts have been quite good about protecting the anonymity of online commenters, very few other countries feel the same way. However, Roni Evron alerts us to a ruling in Israel that also protects the anonymity of blog commenters, ruling that the site doesn&#8217;t need to hand over the IP addresses of commenters: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}