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The Supreme Court ruled more than 50 years ago today that the First Amendment protects a right to anonymous speech. In Talley v. California (1960), the Court ruled in favor of civil rights activist Manuel Talley in a decision that remains a valuable precedent, particularly in the age of Internet and its amplification of anonymous speech.

Over six months after the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began their "Operation in our Sites" initiative, in which they've seized nearly 100 allegedly copyright infringing web domains without warning or due process, one senator has finally taken notice and begun to question whether the process violates First Amendment free speech rights.