The Committee to Protect Bloggers participated in an episode of The Listening Post on Al Jazeera’s English language news service regarding the rights of bloggers to remain anonymous, which has been challenged by a pair of legal rulings in the United States and United Kingdom. The show does an excellent job of highlighting the various reasons people go for anonymity, from the petty to the deadly serious. It offers some food for people who think it’s never justified as well as those who believe no one should ever have to put their name to their claims.

— The Listening Post

Maintained by the Media Law Resource Center, the Legal Actions Against Bloggers blogspot site “lists legal cases in the United States in which bloggers have been sued for libel, privacy and related claims, or been subject to criminal investigations or prosecutions.” The list doesn’t detail whether or not the claims have any validity, but does offer an interesting view of the growing number of blog-related lawsuits going on. MLRC: Legal Actions Against Bloggers. It’s also a good starting point for people researching the subject.