A California based technology company, Juniper Networks, is taking a group of anonymous message board users to court.
The case, filed by in Santa Clara on December 14, claims that ten anonymous users, which it names as “Does 1-10” collectively, posted defamatory comments on the message board at LightReading.com – the site which is itself reporting the case .
It’s worth noting that this is one of a number of recent libel cases where claimants have taken on the users who posted the allegedly defamatory comments rather than the publisher (website owner).
More from cybersoc.com on message board libel here