Anonymous comments could suffer under European Court of Human Rights ruling

[Commentary] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has issued a decision that anti-censorship campaigners say could spell an end to anonymous website comments in the European Union. In the case of Delfi AS v. Estonia, Delfi is an Estonian news site that had been found liable by a court in that country for offensive comments posted by anonymous users under one of its stories. Delfi went to the ECHR claiming this violated its right to freedom of expression, but the human rights court disagreed.