If the precedant set in the UK jumps the pond. A Constable in England, Richard Horton, who ran The NightJack blog, was forced by a UK court to give up his anonymity.
“Blogging is a public activity with no right to anonymity, the high court ruled today in a decision expected to have far-reaching repercussions [...]

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Again, since I agreed with Ed Whelan’s decision to out Publius, aka John F. Blevins of the South Texas College of Law, he nonetheless issues an apology today.

“On reflection, I now realize that, completely apart from any debate over our respective rights and completely apart from our competing views on the merits of pseudonymous blogging, [...]

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Well Now! Ed Whelan at Bench Memos has outed liberal blogger John F. Blevins of the South Texas College of Law, who runs the rather - nearly always wrong - Obsidian Wings blog.
“One bane of the Internet is the anonymous blogger who abuses his anonymity to engage in irresponsible attacks. One such blogger [...]

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I’ve been blogging at Macsmind long before many others began the hobby. I started in 2003 and back then blogs were just coming to their own, a place to share thoughts, rant, make a general ass out of yourself sometimes.
However it wasn’t long before sharks arrived and started to water down and spoil [...]

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This editorial in the LA Times is the latest MSM salvo against bloggers. Writer Michael Skube lends us to believe that “real reporting” is best left the professionals.
“In our time, the Washington Post’s reporting, in late 2005, of the CIA’s secret overseas prisons and its painstaking reports this year on problems at Walter [...]

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