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Judge declines to restrict anonymous comments on Knoxville Web sites
This is welcome news: A Knox County judge this afternoon issued an order refusing to require local media to shut down anonymous commentary allowed on their Web sites. Knox County Judge Richard Baumgartner wrote in his ruling: “So long as people are not committing any wrongdoing they should be free to anonymously participate in the…
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Watch this whacky case and hope for federal legislation
There’s a weird journalism law case going on Detroit that bears watching. Pulitzer Prize-winning Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter has been ordered to divulge his source for a story about a former federal prosecutor. The former prosecutor, Richard Convertino, claims in a civil suit that the U.S. Justice Department violated his privacy when the reporter…
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The collectors
Paul Chenoweth coins a type of social media person, The Collectors. Collectors seem to be obsessed with acquiring the most friends/followers or network connections (depending upon the terminology within a particular online site). I know many of these individuals from several years of participation and research within online communities. Their rationale for connecting (their term)…