(October 26, 2014 at 9:24 am)Brakeman Wrote: Ridiculous! Attributing speech is not curtailment nor censorship. None of the proposal pertains to stopping disagreeable speech.
From McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission:
Quote:It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation--and their ideas from suppression--at the hand of an intolerant society. The right to remain anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. But political speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to the dangers of its misuse.Delivered by Justice John Paul Stevens
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-986.ZO.html
Publius would be dismayed at the idea of people, particularly those identifying as liberal, attempting to infringe upon anonymity's role in our concept of free speech.
