From a Scientology magazine:
Esther Dyson, member of the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and member of the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, spoke on the anonymity issue at the fifth Computers, Freedom & Privacy (CFP) conference in San Francisco. [...] "I have a concern about the spread of bad behavior on the Net," said Dyson. "Anonymity figures into this, and I feel that it has proven to not be a positive factor. It breaks down the community which we are seeking to build, and cout protection and privacy laws already exist and should be applied in a broad way, such that they are transparent to new wrinkles in the technology. It is not necessary to view the world of the Net as different from the rest of the world." http://www.anonymizer.com:8080/http://www.theta.com/goodman/hijack.htm [For EFF's former position on anonymity, see http://ftp.sterling.com:80/COAST/doc/law+ethics/EFF-Anonymity]