As far as interviews go, it was a bit of a train wreck. Last week, Michael Heyward was on stage at the annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City, shifting uncomfortably in his seat, ...

Anonymity is one of the great gifts of the Internet, because it allows people to explore new interests and express opinions without anyone knowing who they are. It's protective, it's empowering, and ...

Over the past few years a growing number of social networks and online communities -- the likes of Facebook and YouTube among them -- have introduced, or in some cases have tried to introduce, a real ...

We've all seen how the comments section of online news stories can sometimes bring out the worst in people — with profane, hateful language, personal attacks, and a general lack of civility. A ...

First Amendment anonymity safeguards have been vital over the past half-century, but they have limits. The constitutional protections prevent certain uses of government power to unmask people. Cases ...

When Facebook burst onto the scene in 2004, the Internet's culture of anonymity and pseudonymity, when strangers talked mainly behind screen names, changed drastically. Subscribe to read this story ad ...

When Rosemary Port, a New York blogger, used her anonymous posts to call a New York fashion model a "skank" and a "ho," she had no idea that her name would soon be plastered across the pages of the ...

Governor Kristi Noem came under attack last week, supposedly for advancing legislation to protect “dark money.” That’s the term used to make anonymous giving to charities sound sinister. But Americans ...

Jeffrey R. Di Leo explores issues of identity, dialogue and the practice of keeping identities secret in many practices of the academy. The history of English literature is replete with authors who ...