If you thought a spat between Buddhists couldn't devolve into a federal cyberstalking case of dubious constitutionality, consider the following.
When the 
Social media are abuzz about English Premier League footballer
("soccer player" to us Yanks) Ryan Giggs, who has obtained an order from a British
court requiring Twitter to reveal the identity of various tweeters who
identified him as having had an affair with model and Big Brother
contestant Imogen Thomas.
It is a fundamental principle of the United States legal system that courts should be open to the public. This principle is widely regarded as more aspirational than factual, because of numerous practical barriers to courtroom access -- not the least of which is that most of us do not have the time or ability to travel to the court to witness proceedings in person. While the news media report on judicial proceedings, 
CMLP contributor Eric P.
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it . . ." –Definition of Doublethink from 1984, George Orwell
Well, it turns out this 
I understand you're upset, Philadelphia. Plans for a "flash mob" snowball fight last week got 
I have written plenty of posts in which I have opined that sue-happy entities simply do not understand the 
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