[bryze]

The ironic thing to me is that in order to enforce the idea of an Internet Bill of Rights, you have to throw anonymity out the window. How do you defend an anonymous user in court?

It's not a bad idea, but how do we defend the anonymous users?

[wmf]

How do you defend an anonymous user in court?

See this specific example: http://www.aclu.org/national-security/doe-v-holder

More generally, groups like EFF can represent the interests of groups of users without naming them individually.

[wdewind]

How do you bring an anonymous user to court to defend? I don't quite get your question (but I'd like to).

[scoot]

And as a parallel - the EU cookie law:

I used to be able to allow only session cookies. Now I get asked if I'm cool with cookies every time I visit a ton of major websites, and the only way to stop the message coming back? Allow persistent cookies. Ugh!