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Yes, I probably should have been less blunt. I was partly thinking about this article

http://www.computorney.com/anonarticle.htm

which concludes that "anonymity in cyberspace is a fundamental underpinning of democracy"

In 1995 the Supreme Court struck down an Ohio law that required the disclosure of personal identity on political literature.

http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Essays/Civil-Liber...