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The Trouble with Anonymous Bloggers

cyberspace enables anyone willing to spring for a domain name and pay an Internet service provider $15 a month to become a "publisher." And even better for these latter-day Horace Greeleys, they can corral a limitless number of "reporters" without paying one red cent. Small wonder that blogging has become a force of mainstream media. Indeed, blog owners basically need only to grant anonymity to those who post to their Web sites.

13 minute read November 25, 2008 at 03:29 PM
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Joel Cohen And Katherine A. Helm
The Trouble with Anonymous Bloggers

Since the days of John Stuart Mill, we have believed in the free “marketplace of ideas” ' that is, the constitutional right for all people to share their thoughts, even stridently unpopular ones, with the rest of the world.

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