-Negative consequences of internet anonymity, and some following examples-

Source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/opinion/30zhuo.html
(Problems related to internet anonymity)

My Topic:

Internet anonymity should be protected.

What I hope to learn from this source:

I felt that to this moment, I have been unconsciously inclined towards positive sides of internet anonymity, and only looked for evidences to support te thesis. For a better and a fairer essay, I have decided to find specific examples that are against internet anonymity. These examples can perhaps be used in the refutation  and concession part.

Notes:

-After Alexis Pilkington, a 17-year-old Long Island girl, committed suicide earlier this year, trolls descended on her online tribute page to post pictures of nooses, references to hangings and other hateful comments.
-All 50 states now have stalking, bullying or harassment laws that explicitly include electronic forms of communication.
-Liskula Cohen, a former model, persuaded a New York judge to require Google to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger who she felt had defamed her, and she has now filed a suit against the blogger.
-Another former model, Carla Franklin, persuaded a judge to force YouTube to reveal the identity of a troll who made a disparaging comment about her on the video-sharing site.
-The technology blog Gizmodo is trying an audition system for new commenters, under which their first few comments would be approved by a moderator or a trusted commenter to ensure quality before anybody else could see them. After a successful audition, commenters can freely post. If over time they impress other trusted commenters with their contributions, they’d be promoted to trusted commenters, too, and their comments would henceforth be featured.
 -Nicole Catsouras, an 18-year-old died in a car crash in California in 2006. After that, photographs of her badly disfigured body were posted on the Internet, where anonymous trolls set up fake tribute pages and in some cases e-mailed the photos to her parents with subject lines like “Hey, Daddy, I’m still alive.”  

Final thoughts:

With these evidences, a deep understanding into the essay will be enabled. With such, further research will be necessary for the next step of writing my essay.