{"id":68,"date":"2008-03-18T14:17:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T21:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/68"},"modified":"2008-03-18T14:17:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T21:17:59","slug":"free-speech-includes-the-right-to-be-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/68","title":{"rendered":"Free speech includes the right to be anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alec Couros at Open Thinking &amp; Digital Pedagogy made me aware of some <a href=\"http:\/\/educationaltechnology.ca\/couros\/816\" target=\"_blank\">scary legislation being proposed that would make anonymous posts to the Internet illegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that the First Amendment&#8217;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.)<\/p>\n<p>In doing some quick searches on this, there seem to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/issues\/anonymity\" target=\"_blank\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/security\/news\/2002\/06\/53265\" target=\"_blank\">precedents<\/a> that have upheld this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s frightening that behavior that wouldn&#8217;t even be considered in the &#8220;traditional&#8221; world (print, broadcast media, etc.) is embraced in the digital world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alec Couros at Open Thinking &amp; 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&#8217;s guarantee of free speech implicitly guarantees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-16","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}