Privacy is one thing, but it isn't right to hurt someone by slandering them on a web page! Along with a right to blog, comes great responsibility! A very good write up about a relevant issue!

I think if you are going to be ballsy enough to talk sh1t about someone online, then you better be man enough to take the heat if or when it comes and not be a whiny little baby.

Privacy is one thing, but when you cross the line and encroach on someone else's rights then your privacy becomes null and void.

I've always had a problem with total anonymous postings. Our founding fathers knew the danger of being unable to defend yourself against unnamed assailants. They made the right to face an accuser a key civil right.
Remember the famous psychological experiment where people who's identity was hidden inflicted shocks of a much higher degree to the test subject than those who's identity was known.
How many chat rooms have been made dysfunctional by the bully cloaked in secrecy.
Oh sure, I may wish that I could find a place where I could freely talk about my love of kiddie porn and how I worship Satin or plan to assassinate a high ranking figure, but society is full of compromises.
I also wish that I could get on a plane without being searched.
Anonymity is a good thing, but only for those that act responsibly.

I agree with everyone here to an extent, but who decides what is too far. Should public figures give up their rights to be ridiculed. We see it all the time online. It doesnt affect me one way or another as I want people to see what I have to say, but I can see where this could be dangerous. Did Google even fight this court ruling?

Really? Nobody here understands the right to privacy?

Slander and Libel are irrelevant in the face of our rights. Taking away privacy is only a form of implicit censorship.

David, you worship satin?

Libel and slander laws only apply when you can prove harm to your reputation or income. Some nobody's opinion on a blog does not constitute either necessarily.