The New York Daily News said two former top executives of a mobile marketing firm are seeking to reveal the names of the anonymous trolls who had published comments that were abusive, vulgar and damning in nature. Former Chief Executive Officer Paul Arena and Chief Technology Officer Nathaniel Bradley reportedly filed a lawsuit in order to identify around 30 defendants, who are currently listed as John Does.
Arena and Bradley claimed in the lawsuit that the Internet trolls resorted to derogatory remarks when the two left Augme Technologies in 2012. Augme has changed its name and now goes by its new trade name Hipcricket. The lawsuit was filed by the duo in Brooklyn Federal Court on Friday.
In the lawsuit, the two pertained to the comments which had been published in several online articles and websites, which accused the duo of boosting the company's stock, investor theft, and inappropriate conduct in an office setting via work romances. The comments also claimed that the two were fired and challenged the two's claims that they have resigned.
The complaint said that the bashing against Arena and Bradley had heightened when the former was appointed as AudioEye executive chairman in January.
New York Daily News said that Arena and Bradley is hoping for the court to issue a subpoena to Internet service providers to obtain the addresses of the Internet trolls. Based on the lawsuit, Arena and Bradley intend to get the real names of the trolss to amend the lawsuit, of which some had handles BullTrader, caveat64emptor, i2telecoscammedme4lots, sandwormrider, lookoutbelow99 and pumpanddump340985. The online news site also said that Arena and Bradley are looking into obtaining unspecified financial damages and an injunction for the trolls to cease their online bashing.
"This court should order defendants to cease writing and publishing their defamatory statements, and to order any ISPs with control over the posts to permanently disable access to them," the suit stated.
