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Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by csours on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:11PM (#27908125)
> but academia is poisoning free speech under the guise of righteousness.

No. "Free speech" is not a get out of jail free card.

I think there may some narrow grounds for a lawsuit here, but it's not about free speech, it's about piercing pseudo-anonymity.

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Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by shadowgovt on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:59PM (#27912100)
The lawsuit is purely a claim that the doxxing false-positived some posts that didn't originate from the doxxed individual.

The suit itself isn't purporting to make any claims about the ethical or legal dimensions of using the information available to find someone in the way it was used, only that statements were attributed which the plaintiff did not make.

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