Cyber Civil Rights, by Danielle Keats Citron wrote:Finally, some believe immunizing website operators is essential to preserve anonymity, which they view as vital to free expression on the Internet.402 They may invoke the role of websites such as Wikileaks.org to facilitate political dissidence against oppressive regimes or analogize to important roles played offline by “anonymous” persons, such as investigative journalists’ sources.403 These parallels, however, are inapt. In some instances, many “anonymous” actors are not, in fact, anonymous, but rather have undisclosed identities. No responsible newspaper publishes material based on sources whose identity it does not know. Similarly, although the Supreme Court has rejected thinly supported demands for the production of dissident groups’ membership lists,404 it has never suggested that authorities or private litigants could not obtain the identities of persons reasonably suspected of unlawful activities.405 Freedom of expression has never depended on the absolute ability of speakers to prevent themselves from being identified and held responsible for activities the state may properly prohibit. As Professor Tribe notes, “secrecy often seems the shield of dangerous and irresponsible designs.”406