[sickoflibs]

RE :”If little miss ‘I want free birth control’ decides to not only sue Rush - but to sue bloggers - and she wins - our ability to made comments about people in the news will be stopped. Who wants to comment if they could get sued - and lose everything?’

When you sue someone you want to make sure you can at least recover the legal costs. Suing anonymous bloggers doesn't sound like any case a lawyer would take,.

[GOPJ]

When you sue someone you want to make sure you can at least recover the legal costs. Suing anonymous bloggers doesn't sound like any case a lawyer would take,.

I've known journalists who felt protections they have under the first amendment( and case law) - do NOT extend to 'citizen' journalists. For some of them, taking away our ability to compete with them - sitting in our pajamas in front of computer screens - is the holy grail - the grail that will return their gatekeeper status. It's not a question of some store front lawyer getting a percentage... it's much bigger.