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Seen on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Anonymous bloggers beware. You may not be as anonymous as you think.Forward Township Supervisor Thomas DeRosa has won a court victory in the action that he filed in November to uncover the identities of people who posted comments on an online bulletin board that he said defamed him.
On Wednesday, the ACLU, which had intervened in the case, turned over the Internet Protocol addresses of six individuals who made specific posts that Mr. DeRosa mentioned in his court filings.
That action follows an announcement Tuesday night by West Mifflin Area school director Albert Graham, who vowed to take legal action to attain the names of individuals who he said had posted threats against his life on the West Mifflin page of the discussion board Topix.com.
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