Female Bloggers Threatened

Disturbing story about people trying to silence the opposition. We in Chicago's 49th Ward have recently seen a female blogger harassed by supporters of Alderman Joe Moore. Someone in the Moore camp sent out pink postcards claiming to be from "Conservatives for Gordon." Not only was there no such group, the postcards had the blogger's home address as the return address. (More about that here.) Threats Quiet Female Bloggers (Washington Post) A female freelance writer who blogged about the pornography industry was threatened with rape. A single mother who blogged about "the daily ins and outs of being a mom" was threatened by a cyber-stalker who claimed that she beat her son and that he had her under surveillance. Kathy Sierra, who won a large following by blogging about designing software that makes people happy, became a target of anonymous online attacks that included photos of her with a noose around her neck and a muzzle over her mouth. FULL STORY...