Our
mission: to widen the scope of financial, economic and political information
available to the professional investing public; to skeptically examine and,
where necessary, attack the flaccid institution that financial journalism has
become; to liberate oppressed knowledge; to provide analysis uninhibited by
political constraint; to facilitate
information's unending quest for freedom.
Our method:
pseudonymous speech... - anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the
majority. it thus exemplifies the purpose behind the bill of rights, and of the
first amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from
retaliation-- and their ideas from suppression-- at the hand of an intolerant
society.
...responsibly used - the right to remain
anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. but political
speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in
general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to
the dangers of its misuse.
mcintyre v. ohio
elections commission 514 u.s.
334 (1995) justice stevens writing for the majority.
Though
often maligned (typically by those frustrated by an inability to engage in ad
hominem attacks) anonymous speech has a long and storied history in the united states.
used by the likes of mark twain (aka samuel langhorne clemens) to criticize
common ignorance, and perhaps most famously by alexander hamilton, james madison and john jay (aka
publius) to write the federalist papers, we think ourselves in good company in
using one or another nom de plume. particularly in light of an emerging trend
against vocalizing public dissent in the united states, we believe in the
critical importance of anonymity and its role in dissident speech. like the
economist magazine, we also believe that keeping authorship anonymous moves the
focus of discussion to the content of speech and away from the speaker- as it
should be. we believe not only that you should be comfortable with anonymous
speech in such an environment, but that you should be suspicious of any speech
that isn't.
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