[Foundation-l] Stalking Article

Sat Jun 14 13:41:00 UTC 2008

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> When you argue that true anonymity does not exist, it is a two way street.

Please read more carefully, I did not make that argument.

> Anonymity is not at issue here.

It may not have been a major issue in the Shankbone incident, but
anonymity, pseudonymity, and outing, did play a large role in other
(real life, legally actionable) stalking incidents.

> What I am looking for is a protocol for the legally actionable stalking.

You're definitely not going to get such a protocol from a public email
list, especially one which isn't focussed on such discussions and to
my knowledge has no experts in this field sending messages to it.  Try
hiring an expert, maybe?

Anyway, back to the discussion at hand, I don't think *pseudonymity*
is necessarily a bad thing.  I don't think it should be suggested as a
solution to the problems of stalking, but I think it does have some
minor uses.  My comment was that "I can't think of any good reasons to
edit Wikipedia anonymously".  Anonymously, as in not tying any of your
edits together at all.