{"id":668,"date":"2005-10-26T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=668"},"modified":"2009-04-12T21:13:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:13:49","slug":"668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/10\/26\/668\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymity and the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across this quote over at Barcepundit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Under our Constitution, anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So true, so true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Under our Constitution, anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/simUj-668","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1101,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/05\/08\/online-identity-anonymity\/","url_meta":{"origin":668,"position":0},"title":"Online Identity\/Anonymity","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This story over on Slashdot about how the Washington Post's online executive editor Jim Brady is arguing against anonymity sparked quite a lively little debate. 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