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In late September 2005, we filed an amicus brief in state court,
joined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, supporting a motion to
quash a local Prosecuting Attorney’s subpoena to Mark Twain Rural
Telephone seeking to unmask the identity of an anonymous online
critic. The anonymous critic in this action was engaged in
political speech on a message board of the local television station and
had criticized the subject of an investigation, a local judge, as well
as the progress of the investigation and the prosecuting attorney
conducting the investigation. Amidst substantial allegations of
impropriety, there was additional concern that the prosecuting attorney
was seeking to unmask the identity of the critic for purposes of
retribution or harassment. Unfortunately for all concerned with
privacy, the case was rendered moot when the ISP voluntarily provided
the subscriber’s identity to the prosecuting attorney.
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