Personal Injury Law

$10,000 Reward for Identifying an Anonymous Blogger

By JimReed

Although this post isn’t directly related to my usual posts regarding NY injury law, I nonetheless thought it was an interesting one that would be of interest to my readers.

 A Chicago lawyer doesn’t like some comments that an anonymous blogger has been making about this attorney and his firm so the attorney has offered a $10,000 reward for whoever reveals the identity of the anonymous blogger.  Kind of reminds me of the “Wanted” posters for the bad guys in the old Western movies! 

I personally dislike the idea of anonymous blogging and feel that if you feel strongly enough about what you are saying than you should be strong enough to sign your name to it.   We all know it’s easy to talk tough behind someone’s back or anonymously but the real test of one’s conviction is to do it face-to-face or by signing one’s name.

 With that said, I understand that many very interesting blogs are anonymous because the writer’s circumstances force them to post anonymously because otherwise they would be promptly fired.

 So this really creates a dilemma and I would be very curious to hear back from my readers as to how they feel about anonymous blogging– is it a good thing or bad thing?   Please post your comments and we can have a discussion regarding this interesting dilemma…… (more…)

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Full post as published by New York Injury Law Blog on January 25, 2008 (boomark / email).