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Here in Canada we have a federal law against filing a false police report. It can get you up to 5 years. Is there nothing like that in the US?



From reading the article it seems the authorities won't or can't figure out the perpetrators. A California judge denied the victim's request for Cloudflare to unmask the blog owner under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and even forced the victim to pay the blogger's legal fees. Seems like the current system is not only unprepared to protect people from online abuse, but even punishes the victims.




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