I happened to drop by Metafilter before going to sleep and came across this thread, which touches on 4 interesting issues:
- The World Economic Forum (at Davos)
- Authenticating information and sources in the internet age
- Whether electronic discussion forums are inherently invalid wastes of time
- Whether we can expect any right to privacy with personal email
I wrote some thoughts about point #3, which touch on some of my initial thinking on the subject. My moot court brief will keep me from developing those thoughts for a while, but I would like to also discuss the problem of anonymity and ID. How much does it affect one’s credibility and reputation to write anonymously on the internet?
James Grimmelman wrote a veritable treatise about the issue on LawMeme: Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy, and the Internet
