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Prof. Martha Nussbaum Esq.


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January 2011: 'The practice of withholding the identity of the speaker is strategic, and one purpose of the strategy (this is the second problem with anonymity) is to avoid responsibility and accountability for what one is saying. Anonymity, Martha Nussbaum, a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago observes, allows Internet bloggers “to create for themselves a shame-free zone in which they can inflict shame on others.” The power of the bloggers, she continues, “depends on their ability to insulate their Internet selves from responsibility in the real world, while ensuring real-world consequences” for those they injure.'

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/anonymity-and-the-dark-side-of-the-internet/

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Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) University of Chicago Organization Jan 5, 2011
Cooperation (past or present) Colleague/Co-worker of (past or present) Prof. Saul Levmore Ph.D., Esq. Person Jan 6, 2011

Articles and Resources

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Jan 03, 2011 Anonymity and the Dark Side of the Internet

QUOTE: What is remarkable about this volume is that the legal academics who make the arguments I have rehearsed are by and large strong free-speech advocates. Yet faced with the problems posed by the Internet, they start talking about “low value” speech (a concept strong first-amendment doctrine rejects) and saying things like “autonomy resides not in free choice per se but in choosing wisely” and “society needs not an absence of ‘chill,’ but an optimal level.”(In short, let’s figure out which forms of speech we should discourage.)

 New York Times
Jan 01, 1999 Sex and Social Justice

QUOTE: The feminism defended here has five salient features: it is internationalist, humanist, liberal, concerned with the social shaping of preference and desire, and, finally, concerned with sympathetic understanding[…] Among the advantages of the combination is an opportunity to link feminist inquiry closely to the progress that has been made during the past few decades in articulating the elements of a theory of both national and global justice.

Oxford University Press