Legal Research

Anonymity

By Angela Swan

I deplore the practice of some of those who publish on Slaw?or, indeed, anywhere else?doing so anonymously. I have raised the matter privately with Simon Fodden but I raise it now publicly. In my opinion, anyone who wants to publish anything on Slaw, whether as a post or a comment, should do so only after he or she has provided Simon with a valid e-mail address, a short bio and a statement of the organization with which he or she is affiliated. This information should be available to anyone. Whether or not anonymous blogging will eventually come to an end?as I strongly hope it will?Slaw should lead the way into a more open world.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).