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To: Fester Chugabrew

>>Anyone who posts in public on the web should have their full, accurate, and immediate contact information associated with their words.

I would argue strongly against that. Many of the handbills posted prior to and during the American Revolution were posted anonymously. Anonymous political speech has an important place in American political history, and doing away with it on the Internet is *not* a good idea.


8 posted on 02/04/2023 7:36:40 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Yeah. I thought about Ben Franklin. In this case the attack was not against a politician, but a common citizen.


11 posted on 02/04/2023 8:30:25 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (/s)
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