The latest attack on Internet anonymity

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Paul Levy <plevy () citizen org>
> Date: May 19, 2010 1:18:54 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>
> Subject: The latest attack on Internet anonymity

> Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett has sent a grand jury subpoena to Twitter to identify two anonymous 
> bloggers who criticize Corbett and his campaign for governor.
> http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2010/05/tom-corbett-the-hypocrisy-of-some-who-sue-to-keep-the-government-out-of-our-private-lives.html
>  
> Twitter has apparently asked for more time to respond to the subpoena; I must assume that it will be raising 
> appropriate First Amendment defenses.  But the Pennsylvania courts are notoriously politicized, and cases like this 
> have to be litigated in state court.  Moreover, one of the members of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Joan Orie 
> Melvin, herself used a (civil) subpoena to try to out one of her own critics.
>  
> Paul Alan Levy
> Public Citizen Litigation Group
> 1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
> Washington, D.C. 20009
> (202) 588-1000
> http://www.citizen.org/litigation



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