Joanna
2008-05-22 07:20:03
A point that I think everyone (including Ms. Catalano) is missing:
Isn’t there a difference between using a pseudonym and pretending to be an entirely different person? When I post online under a pseudonym, I’m not pretending to be someone I’m not – I’m me, just with a different (and obviously fake) name. There would be a big difference between me posting in a forum under a pseudonym as a 24-year-old woman (which is what I am) and posting in a forum under a pseudonym as a 40-year-old man. The problem comes from this woman’s willful misrepresentation of herself, not the use of a pseudonym to do so, and future legal cases based on this precedent would hopefully reflect that.
