Snark practitioners around the world beware. If you thought you could rely on the anonymity of the internet, you're wrong. Last week Vogue cover girl Liskula Cohen won the right to discover the identity of a blogger who offensively called her a "skank" on the blog Skanks in NY.
As The Times reports, the blogger "Anonymous" wrote “I would have to say the first-place award for ‘Skankiest in NYC’ would have to go to Liskula Gentile Cohen." They went on to ridicule the model as a “40-something” who “may have been hot 10 years ago”, when she was actually 36.
Cohen sought the identity of the blogger so she could sue for defamation, and had her wish granted by a Manhattan supreme court judge who ordered Google to hand the information over. Justice Joan Madden rejected the blogger’s claim that the blogs “serve as a modern-day forum for conveying personal opinions, including invective and ranting”, and should not be treated as factual assertions.
Does this ruling put the future of snark in jeapordy?
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