Online Public Shaming can ruin lives...

Bay
Sat, 01 Aug 2015 21:05:48 +0000

More about suing anonymous posters: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-james-woods-twitter-lawsuit-20150730-htmlstory.html

Are such lawsuits ever successful?
Yes.

For example, in April 2012, a jury awarded almost $14 million in damages to a Texas couple after anonymous Internet users posted thousands of comments about them, accusing them of being ”sexual deviants, molesters, and drug dealers,” according to ABC News.

The accusations against Mark and Rhonda Lesher were posted on Topix, once self-described as "the country’s largest local forum site,” ABC News said.