This is worrisome - US laws protect whistleblowers. I'm not a lawyer, and maybe lawyers here can confirm this, but it seems to me that the accused could've explored 'whistleblower protections' as a line of defense.<p>On a secondary note - what information for Google have regarding the blogger? Was Google the domain registrar or host, or something else.<p>We need a completely decentralized and anonymous by design TLD, and anonymous hosting providers - a tor for the host