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Adaptive Marketing v. Yahoo!
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Internet Free Speech - Right To Speak Anonymously
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09/21/2009 |
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| Adaptive Marketing, a company that advertises a telephone number for obtaining “free” credit scores,” and then uses that call to sell credit monitoring services at $29.95 per month, brought a pre-litigation discovery proceeding in state court in Stamford Connecticut seeking to identify an anonymous blogger who cited published reports referring to this scheme as a “predatory bait-and-switch” and referring to the parent company as having engaged in “deceptive business practices.” Public Citizen represents the blogger asserting the First Amendment right to remain anonymous, which is not overcome in this case because the supposedly defamatory words are opinion based on disclosed facts and because there is no evidence of falsity. |
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