Watch what you say

Instapundit uses his weekly USA Today column to examine the feds' subpoena of commenter information at Reason.
In today's world, protecting speech has increased importance.
The frothings of Internet commenters, of course, are apt to be regarded as low-value speech. Even so, in a world where, increasingly, people are hounded out of their jobs or subjected to legal harassment for things that they say, the ability to speak anonymously is of growing importance.