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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