Careful what we say We all need to watch we say ....... below is an example of listed Companies defending against Posters on Stockhouse (obviously this article has nothing to with HGO).
I see this happening more and more, i.e., we are not as antonymous as we are lead to believe.
Western Wind on trail of "patheticnews" forum poster
2012-07-16 13:12 ET - Street Wire
by Mike Caswell
Western Wind Energy Corp. has filed another petition in the Supreme Court of British Columbia looking to identify the Stockhouse user known as "patheticnews." The company says that patheticnews authored a forum message which stated that Western Wind had "ripped [its] shareholders" with a deal to buy land in California. The company previously obtained the user's IP address from Stockhouse, and is now asking that the courts order Telus Corp. to provide the user's name.
While Western Wind has not yet sued patheticnews, it is actively looking to identify him as well as another Stockhouse user called "j_mart." The company claims that the two users were responsible for many defamatory posts earlier this year, some of which called Western Wind's chief executive officer, Jeff Ciachurski, a crook and a stock manipulator. The company petitioned Stockhouse to provide identifying information for the users on May 17, 2012, and won a court order two weeks later compelling Stockhouse to provide user records.
In a brief petition filed on Friday, Western Wind says that it has no practical way to identify patheticnews without the assistance of Telus. Besides an e-mail address, the only identifying information the company received from Stockhouse was an IP address that belongs to a Telus customer. (The petition lists the e-mail address as info@interglobeinvestigate.com.) According to the petition, Telus is not opposed to identifying the user, but requires a court order before it will do so. Western Wind asks that a judge enter such an order.