on-line comments/postings - should you be protected?

Changes are being effected across the world regarding privacy of
parties engaging in on-line blogs, postings/comments, and other aspects
which might affect your abilities to voice opinions or otherwise on the
Internet.

Here's a link with some basics, there are many more:
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4827&tag=nl.e539

So what's your "take" on this issue?

Should there be a general protection applied to these activities, or
should certain circumstances dictate the ability to force or require
exposure? What would those circumstances be?

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On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:19:03 -0400, MEB <meb-not-here@hotmail.com> put
finger to keyboard and composed:

>
> Changes are being effected across the world regarding privacy of
>parties engaging in on-line blogs, postings/comments, and other aspects
>which might affect your abilities to voice opinions or otherwise on the
>Internet.
>
>Here's a link with some basics, there are many more:
>http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4827&tag=nl.e539
>
> So what's your "take" on this issue?
>
> Should there be a general protection applied to these activities, or
>should certain circumstances dictate the ability to force or require
>exposure? What would those circumstances be?

I'm wondering if it's possible to defame an anonymous person.

- Franc Zabkar
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Franc Zabkar wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:19:03 -0400, MEB <meb-not-here@hotmail.com> put
> finger to keyboard and composed:
>
>> Changes are being effected across the world regarding privacy of
>> parties engaging in on-line blogs, postings/comments, and other aspects
>> which might affect your abilities to voice opinions or otherwise on the
>> Internet.
>>
>> Here's a link with some basics, there are many more:
>> http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4827&tag=nl.e539
>>
>> So what's your "take" on this issue?
>>
>> Should there be a general protection applied to these activities, or
>> should certain circumstances dictate the ability to force or require
>> exposure? What would those circumstances be?
>
> I'm wondering if it's possible to defame an anonymous person.
>
> - Franc Zabkar

Not exactly what the article intended, but ....

Oh, there have been attempts to bring this.
You may have noticed it occasionally in the news somewhere when some
famous or powerful person [a named REAL person] got a court to Order the
removal of something FROM an anonymous entity. Seems there may have been
a recovery of damages in a few [after being traced back to the source].
The least bit of proof in support of the purported defamation and
there is none.

But your question is defamation of an anonymous person; if the party
is unknown/misnomered there can be no defamation done. Or can there be?
What's to defame?? The fake identity?

What do you think the complaint would look like?

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