{"id":438,"date":"2009-03-25T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T04:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2009-03-25T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:19:24","slug":"how-to-blog-anonymously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2009\/03\/25\/how-to-blog-anonymously\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Blog Anonymously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For readers and netizens living under an iron curtain of internet and political repression (fighting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River_crab_(internet_slang)\">river crabs<\/a>), anonymous blogging is an important free speech enabler. Like 18th century phampleteers (or even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoiplitigation.com\/2008\/03\/articles\/legal-news\/anonymous-bloggers-carry-on-tradition-of-the-federalist-papers\/\">writers<\/a> of the Federalist papers), anonymous bloggers are empowered by their aliases to challenge taboos, censors and government power.<\/p>\n<p>This updated <a href=\"http:\/\/advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org\/projects\/guide\/\">guide<\/a> (edited by Global Voices\/Berkman guru Ethan Zuckerman) lays out the best practices of protecting your identity without silencing your voice, including the Tor anonymizer with WordPress and email tricks. The internet is the last bulwark against totalitarian control because of its fluid and democratic character. That is why anonymous blogging is so important. Difficult to trace or gag, it is the kind of speech most likely to impact an increasingly interconnected and web-dependent world.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, be extremely careful. Use these tools at your discretion. Reporters Without Borders has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsf.org\/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=119\">comprehensive list<\/a> of jailed cyber-dissidents. This past week, an Iranian blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2009\/03\/19\/eulogy-for-omid-misayafi\/\">died<\/a> in prison custody, while the Iranian parliament <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oq9SkwGxvYY\">considered<\/a> passing a chilling law, turning seditious and anti-clerical blogging into a capital offense. And this in a country with millions of internet users and thousands of blogs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For readers and netizens living under an iron curtain of internet and political repression (fighting river crabs), anonymous blogging is an important free speech enabler. Like 18th century phampleteers (or even the writers of the Federalist papers), anonymous bloggers are empowered by their aliases to challenge taboos, censors and government power. This updated guide (edited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,359,2097,2128,2142,622],"tags":[5139,3914,3687,56353,1871,3752,5140,56358,56355,5141],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-china","category-states","category-free-speech","category-id-project","category-iran","tag-anonymous-blog","tag-blogger","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-death-penalty","tag-dissident","tag-federalist","tag-free-speech","tag-iran","tag-totalitarian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}