Like every journalist, I’m grateful for laws that protect people exercising their First Amendment rights against dubious lawsuits designed to harass or intimidate.

But in practice, anti-SLAPP suits can be deeply unsatisfying, as two recent cases—one involving fitness guru Richard Simmons, the other a man on a self-proclaimed mission to stop revenge porn and cyber-bullying—make clear.

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