anonymous blogging, trolls, misogyny and ethics

[rm]

http://ethicist.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/is-it-ok-to-blog-about-this-woman-anonymously/

Chat amongst yourselves. I'm off to save the world (er, so not really, but let's pretend, okay?)

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[sethg]

So do I, as the host of a blog, have a moral obligation to confirm that everyone who comments there can be traced back to a real human identity, just in case someone posts something uncivil and the target of the incivility wants to know who to sue? And as long as I'm doing that, how do I prevent readers of the blog from exploiting other people's non-anonymity to commit uncivil acts of their own?