The Shelby County Commission is subpoenaing The Commercial Appeal for “the identities of anonymous commenters on its website,” the newspaper reported itself.
The Commercial Appeal is a daily Memphis newspaper with a circulation of about 119,000, Mondo Times reports.
In question are “racially charged comments” on stories about “the merger of Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools,” according to Memphis CBS-affiliate WREG News Channel 3. The Knoxville News Sentinel added that comments were posted on 45 articles and that the newspaper had “deleted as inappropriate” some comments.
via Tennessee Newspaper Subpoenaed for Anonymous Commenters’ Identities.
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