Alec Couros at Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy made me aware of some scary legislation being proposed that would make anonymous posts to the Internet illegal.
It seems to me that the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech implicitly guarantees anonymous free speech as well. (This was very much an issue to our Founding Fathers, some of whom published their own grievances anonymously.)
In doing some quick searches on this, there seem to be several precedents that have upheld this.
It’s frightening that behavior that wouldn’t even be considered in the “traditional” world (print, broadcast media, etc.) is embraced in the digital world.
Free speech includes the right to be anonymous