First off, I hate the term “free speech.” The Constitution says nothing about free speech, but rather a freedom of speech… not that The Constitution is perfect. The problem I have with the term is that it starts a slippery slope where people can be punished for their speech rather than THE CONSEQUENCES of their speech.

Secondly, I don’t believe you have a right to anonymity period. You have a right to TRY to conduct your affairs anonymously, and to enter contracts with others barring them from divulging information. You have a right to conduct affairs on your own property and to keep others off of your property. You have a right to use technology and other means to make discovery of your actions difficult. You have the right to keep your mouth shut. But, if I discover something about another without trespassing or breaching contract or otherwise using force, threats of force, or fraud, then that other has no right to prevent me from acting on that information or divulging it.

If the government is not cracking servers or using false credentials to gain access, then they aren’t doing anything wrong. However, I think what they’re doing is dangerous and inasmuch as they work for “the people” (laughable I know), they should be made to cease compiling such information.

Hopefully some of those knuckleheads will actually read what I’m writing and change their wicked ways because of it.