[Frantzie]

So this explains various trolls on FR. I wish FR would put an ignore button or a poster rating button on FR.

[WayneLusvardi]

Here is another slant on this issue - police have free speech rights but it would be inadvisable for them to use their names when commenting on blogs on crime issues. So how do we protect police free speech rights on blogs?

[x_plus_one]

Not only is the Department of Justice Blog Squad going to reach out to nontraditional media like TPM Muckraker or the Muffled Oar, but they are also tasked with fostering anonymous comments at conservative leaning blogs such as the Free Republic. They are also tasked with fostering anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, at newspaper websites with stories critical of the Department of Justice, Holder and President Obama. One conservative editor recently told the Muffled Oar that they have noticed a significant increase in the number and aggressiveness of comments to stories critical of the Holder Justice Department. “There is clearly a designed effort to rebut stories that are exposing the Holder Justice Department as more political than the last. We’ve seen a change in the pattern of anonymous emails we receive and comments posted at our paper’s webpage.”

Who are the new trolls?