IF YOU FEEL the chill wind of anti-defamation blowing up your backside and you know you're likely to be at the receiving end of a libel charge in Ireland, perhaps you should leverage technology before you get too snarky online. First, you should configure your browser so that it blocks all referrer information. Second, I suggest that you connect to the internet through a host that does not keep full archives of web sessions. By looking around, you might discover an internet service provider who does not store complete IP addresses with their server logs or a provider whose limited storage capacity occasionally results in corrupt records of internet access. Third, while trying to find the most accommodating host, you should also connect through an anonymiser, perhaps using rima-tde.net, the service preferred by the most creative Irish bloggers.
These techniques equate to a two-edged sword because anyone can use them to hide behind anonymity. In a digital world, anonoymity equates to privacy.
Digital Rights Ireland offers excellent reading material concerning online libel.
Gavin Sheridan -- "Bloggers not immune from libel laws"
