Its a skirmish in the campaign being waged by our intelligence services and others who insist the Russian government has been waging a secret campaign to attack our country and "sow division" by using sockpuppets and spam posts on a variety of platforms.

I don't have much of a problem with this ruling given that all commenters were warned:

"every commenter was provided with a privacy notice, stating that '[a]ll information submitted, including names and addresses, will be publicly available via the Web.'"