[Commlist] New book: The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech

We would like to announce a new publication from Cornell University 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*The United States of Anonymous*

How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech

*Jeff Kosseff***

*https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501762383/the-united-states-of-anonymous/* 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501762383/the-united-states-of-anonymous/>*__*

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*Available in print and digital formats*

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*Receive a 20% discount online*:*

*CSLS2022*

*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 31^st December 2022. Discount only applies to 
the CAP website.

In /The United States of Anonymous/, Jeff Kosseff explores how the right 
to anonymity has shaped American values, politics, business, security, 
and discourse, particularly as technology has enabled people to separate 
their identities from their communications.

Legal and political debates surrounding online privacy often focus on 
the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and 
seizures, overlooking the history and future of an equally powerful 
privacy right: the First Amendment's protection of anonymity. /The 
United States of Anonymous/features extensive and engaging interviews 
with people involved in the highest profile anonymity cases, as well as 
with those who have benefited from, and been harmed by, anonymous 
communications. Through these interviews, Kosseff explores how courts 
have protected anonymity for decades and, likewise, how law and 
technology have allowed individuals to control how much, if any, 
identifying information is associated with their communications. From 
blocking laws that prevent Ku Klux Klan members from wearing masks to 
restraining Alabama officials from forcing the NAACP to disclose its 
membership lists, and to refusing companies' requests to unmask online 
critics, courts have recognized that anonymity is a vital part of our 
free speech protections.

/The United States of Anonymous/weighs the tradeoffs between the right 
to hide identity and the harms of anonymity, concluding that we must 
maintain a strong, if not absolute, right to anonymous speech.

*Jeff Kosseff*is Associate Professor in the United States Naval 
Academy's Cyber Science Department and author of the bestselling book, 
/The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet/. He was a finalist for 
the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and the recipient of the 
George Polk Award in National Reporting. Follow him on Twitter @jkosseff.


*Cornell University Press**| March 2022 | 328pp | 9781501762383 | HB | 
£23.99**

*Price subject to change.

*The ebook version of this title available through all major digital 
vendors and retailers. If you wish to purchase this title for your 
library then please contact your library supplier. For more information 
on ebook purchasing please follow this link - 
**https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ebooks/*


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