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Actually, the issue of whether or not a reporter should have a special right to preserve the anonymity of sources has been a question of First Amendment law sin

Actually, the issue of whether or not a reporter should have a special right to preserve the anonymity of sources has been a question of First Amendment law since at least the nineteen-seventies: http://www.rcfp.org/first-amendment-handbook/introduction-legislative-protection-news-sources-constitutional-privilege-a http://www.rcfp.org/first-amendment-handbook/introduction-le... And, as others have suggested, you might want to flip the "bozo bit" on the entire notion of a "bozo bit", because it's a funny metaphor but a lousy rule for real life. Everybody is a bozo some of the time.

SimHacker 15y ago
Well if he's flipping the bozo bit instead of setting it, that means you need only be a bozo an even number of times and he won't consider you a bozo. I set the bozo bit of anyone who flips the bozo bit.
kevinpet 15y ago
Okay, thanks for giving me the connection to the first amendment, but it still means nothing, because Path is not the government. The legal "protection" is about whether the government can force a reporter to divulge his sources. It is not magic fairy dust that imposes storage requirements on third parties. I don't think disregarding someone's opinion because you've found a significant fault in some of their opinions. I'm not an expert on everything, but then I don't post articles on things I'm not an expert on. If the parts of an article I can can evaluate turn out to be incorrect, then I can reasonably infer that the rest of the article is of similar accuracy, even if I can't personally evaluate it.