Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

Interesting article on the Memphis based site commercialappeal.com
Apparently the director of police is using public funds to attempt sue and identify an anonymous blogger believed to be a Memphis police officer (or several officers)

Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical of Godwin and his department.

The lawsuit asks AOL to produce all information related to the identity of an e-mail address linked to MPD Enforcer 2.0, a blog popular with police officers that has been extremely critical of police leadership at 201 Poplar.

“In what could be a landmark case of privacy and the 1st Amendment,” the anonymous bloggers write on the site, “Godwin has illegally used his position and the City of Memphis as a ram to ruin the Constitution of the United States.

Read the full article here.