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ISPs May Have To Reveal Troll Identities In UK

  • Reuters, Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:48 PM

Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said the proposed approach would give greater protection to operators who complied with the procedure, ahead of Tuesday's second reading in Parliament of the Defamation Bill. Website operators would be forced under new British laws to reveal the identity of those who post defamatory comments on their forums, a move that aims to protect victims by speeding up what is often a lengthy and expensive legal process.

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