Anonymous FBC Jax Watchdog ‘muzzled’ for the time being
Watchdog
Advised to fall silent about First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., “until certain on-going events run their course,” the Watchdog has proclaimed himself “muzzled.”
Watchdog promises to tell his story then, and it sounds both interesting and illustrative of what can befall anonybloggers:
When I tell my story, it will be the entire story of what has occured regarding this blog, the legal proceedings, Comcast subpoenas, field reports, official JSO trespass warnings … all of it. It isn’t pretty, and many people will be sorely disappointed at what has transpired in the last few months behind the scenes.
Public-spirited anonymous blogging deserves our support and defense. After all:
Do we not protect the discourse itself by protecting this one blogger?
A collapse of anonymity appears to have led to this silence — a caesura in self-expression about matters which at every step have appeared to be legitimate public concerns.
Do not look here for a celebration of such silence.
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