James Woods Clears Hurdle in Effort to Unmask Twitter User
An accountable society is a polite society.
To those who spend enough time on the Internet, anonymous attacks come with the territory, like mosquito bites in the tropics. But some bites have serious consequences.
So it may be with a defamation lawsuit filed by the actor James Woods, against a pseudonymous Twitter user who called him a “cocaine addict.” Mr. Woods says he aims to lift the cloak of anonymity that many use as a cover for online abuse.
In the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Mr. Woods, who has acted in films such as “Salvador,” “Casino,” and “Nixon,” hopes to unmask the Twitter user who goes by the name Abe List (@abelisted). He is also seeking $10 million worth of damages in a lawsuit that revolves around a single offending tweet.
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