Would our political system be worse off if people in situations like mine stopped contributing to avoid disclosure, or is that precisely the decision to which citizens who wish to participate in politics ought to be put? Because Americans so often reductively equate democratic politics with voting, when we think of anonymity in democratic politics we typically think mainly ofthe secret ballot.
MORGANTOWN - Tyler Bitancurt has enjoyed the highs and endured the lows while practicing his craft as a college kicker. It doesn't get much higher than kicking the winning field goal on the last play of the game against a team's most bitter rival, which he did as a redshirt freshman in 2009. His 43-yarder capped a 4-for- 4 night and gave West Virginia a 19-16 win over No. 8 Pitt in the Backyard Brawl.
Somewhere in Giles County, at the center of a conflict between the words of God and those of the U.S. Constitution, is a high school student known as Doe 1. The student used the pseudonym when filing a lawsuit last week that challenged a display of the Ten Commandments at Narrows High School, claiming it violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
Who is writing that brilliant, stupid, nasty, brave and/or dishonest online comment? We haven't a clue, because the author hasn't shared his or her name, hometown, gender, age and/or nationality. Or even worse, the author pretends to be another real person. Scammers, misfits, crooks, creeps, criminals and nice people all venture through cyberspace without identifying themselves. We can only guess what they're up to. Web anonymity is often a force for evil in the civic conversation. There is the celebrated case of the blog known as "Gay Girl in Damascus." Followed by many and quoted by some journalists as an authority on events in Syria, the gay girl turned out to be a 40-year-old married American man writing from Scotland.
Who is writing that brilliant, stupid, nasty, brave and/or dishonest online comment? We haven't a clue, because the author hasn't shared his or her name, hometown, gender, age and/or nationality. Or even worse, the author pretends to be another real person. Scammers, misfits, crooks, creeps, criminals and nice people all venture through cyberspace without identifying themselves. We can only guess what they're up to. Web anonymity is often a force for evil in the civic conversation. There is the celebrated case of the blog known as "Gay Girl in Damascus." Followed by many and quoted by some journalists as an authority on events in Syria, the gay girl turned out to be a 40-year-old married American man writing from Scotland.
You know what job I want for a day? I want to be the person in the full-body, foam mattress costume who stands on Dodge Street and waves at traffic. I would work that job and be as nutty as my imagination allowed. I'd fold my hands to the side of my big mattress head and pretend to sleep. I'd point at people and run toward the store like they should follow me. I'd do my happy dance. Of course, the fun of the job lies in the security of its anonymity. I'd behave in ways I normally wouldn't given the assurance no one will know who I am. But without a full-body, foam mattress costume, you'll never see my happy dance.
From warrantless wiretapping to ever-present surveillance cameras, our world is right now in the midst of a long war on anonymity. In the media and political arenas, we've seen paparazzi culture famously fetishize the outing of anonymous iconoclasts, from Watergate's Deep Throat (Mark Felt) to a top CIA agent working on weapons of mass destruction (Valerie Plame). Likewise, in our communities, we now know that we are almost always being monitored in highly trafficked parks, malls, airports and stadiums -- and as Slate recently reported, we may soon have apps on all of our smartphones that let us identify random faces in a crowd.
RED BUD, Ill. - The tiny Illinois farm town of Red Bud is the kind of place with few strangers and few secrets. Yet the community of 3,700 has a lingering mystery on its hands: Who bought the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, and why hasn't the winner of the world-record $656 million jackpot come forward? Though secrecy surrounds the ticket sold at the MotoMart convenience store, lottery officials note it's not unusual for winners to lay low - and those who advise them say it's just plain smart.
Heightened pleading standards and limits on discovery in private securities fraud actions make confidential informants crucial in many cases. While courts have widely recognized the importance of confidential informants and the need to protect them from retaliation, they have not applied consistent standards as to how informants must be identified in pleadings, and have failed to take into account substantial bodies of relevant case law when deciding whether to require the disclosure of informants' names in discovery. This article offers a framework for deciding when and how confidential informants should be identified, taking into account the competing interests in anonymity and disclosure. At the discovery stage, this article criticizes the use of the attorney work product doctrine as...
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