Australian journalist threatened after outing an anonymous Leftist blogger

We read:

"A journalist at The Australian has been threatened and abused by users of Twitter after outing an anonymous blogger.

The blogger, who was using the pen name Grog's Gamut, is Canberra public servant Greg Jericho.

The report in yesterday's Media section by James Massola attracted thousands of comments from users of the micro-blogging website about the right of the newspaper to unmask Mr Jericho.

Massola said the public had a right to know Mr Jericho's identity because his blogging had been influential enough to affect the way the ABC covered the election campaign, according to ABC managing director Mark Scott.

Mr Jericho refused interviews yesterday and argued on his Grog's Gamut blog that he had not breached public service rules by tweeting on politics, because he did not write about the agency where he worked, the film section of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Public servants can participate in political activities if they "separate their personal views on policy issues from the performance of their official duties".

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Anonymity undoubtedly allows people to speak more freely but it is fragile. If somebody really wants to (a law enforcement agency, for instance) they will usually be able to do track you down. I would not advise anybody to rely on it.

And threatening somebody for supplying information is what one expects of Leftists. The children of the light love the light and the children of the darkness love the darkness (See John 3:19-20).