When I first heard she was being prosecuted for SOMETHING I felt a little better about life. Ahhhh, justice is served. And then when I heard what she was being prosecuted for, I took a pause. I may have even uttered an audible, “Uh oh.”
A couple folks here know my real name, but I choose to use Timmer when I blog and Tim O’Connel when I’ve written some bad fiction simply because I have a family, and while I’m willing to stand by everything I’ve written, I’m not willing to open my family up to any repercussions, real or imagined, from folks that disagree with me. Just ask Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom if you think it’s just paranoia.
Under this law as it’s being used in this case, Ben Franklin and Samuel Clemens would be targets for prosecution if they were writing on the web today. I’m no Franklin nor Clemens, but there are lots of reasons people may have for choosing to remain anonymous and insulated from their writing personas.
