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HotCopper's trolls on borrowed time

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If you're going to use Twitter to troll those whose investment theses conflict with your own, anonymity is never assured. As Clive Asset Management's Afterpay Twitter bulls Jonathan Wilson and Gareth Abernathy discovered in these pages yesterday.

That took a little bit of deduction to figure out. But if a user goes so far as to post something potentially defamatory on "Australia's largest finance site" HotCopper, all it takes is a court order.

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Myriam Robin is Rear Window editor based in the Melbourne newsroom. A Rear Window columnist since 2017, she previously reported on financial markets and media. Connect with Myriam on Twitter. Email Myriam at myriam.robin@afr.com

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    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/rear-window/hotcopper-s-trolls-on-borrowed-time-20190717-p52807