An Ontario court has ordered the owners of the FreeDominion.ca website to disclose the identity and all personal information on eight anonymous posters to the chat site. This coupled with recent U.S. rulings indicating only “real” (dying) media like newspaper reporters have the right to maintain confidentiality of sources but bloggers have no such rights (wrong union).
But I’ve already made my deal with the thought police. I’m sorry. They broke me down, bit by bit. It was a typical shakedown where, after just showing me the water board, I pulled a Galileo and recanted and spilled the beans. But only after I made them promise me time off for good behavior if I would give up the identity of the 600 pound gorilla of anonymous posting in Contra Costa County, the Mayor of Claycord.
So I gave her up.
Hey. It was my ass or hers. What was I supposed to do? Tell me you wouldn’t have done the same thing to save your skin!
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The thought police ARE alive and well in Canada and they have been for a while now. Just look at Ernst Zundel. Amazing that American citizens could fall under another country’s judicial system – especially over this!
Transnationalism is truly on the rise…
Do newspaper reporters have special License?
If so how easy it to obtain?
Possibly bloggres could obtain this as well.
Mogey