During the summer of 2008, “Anna Mayer” was getting ready to begin her fi rst semester in graduate school. In her spare time, she wrote a pseudonymous blog about her weight struggles, body ac cep tance, and other personal issues. She enjoyed interacting with her readers and commenting on other blogs; it provided a support system and sounding board for her ideas. Before school began, she searched her name and found posts describing her as a “stupid, ugly fat whore” who “couldn’t take a hint from a man.” Anonymous posters listed her e-mail address, phone number, and dating site profi les. She received e-mails warning that the authors knew where she lived. Posters “outed” her as the author of her pseudonymous blog, taunting that the “confessions she’s made about her pitiful fat fucking self are now blasted across teh [sic] Internet.”