The situation is especially difficult when your critic is anonymous, as then you first need to persuade a website or message board operator to disclose the person's identity.

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The woman, a 27-year-old paralegal, who apparently actually has herpes and wants to keep her identity secret during litigation, has sued the website operator for hosting the photo and the disparaging comments about her on his site.

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