New Jersey pol legislates ‘legal name’ demand, to find and punish commenters about him
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006A New Jersey politician is legislating to outlaw anonymous speech on the Internet, because an online forum for his home district contains a slew of pseudonymous posts that tend to be unkind to local politicians. We suggest getting on that forum and telling him, anonymously or otherwise, that he’s a censor, a bully, and a traitor to his oath to support the Constitution. Anonymous speech and publication is fully protected by the First Amendment.