Professor Ann Bartow of Feminist Law Professors has an excellent point about the recent hack into Governor Palin’s private Yahoo! account: it might be enough to finally inspire some real, hard-core laws against that kind activity. The issue being that non-famous victims have a heck of a time convincing police to take attacks like these seriously.

Too many feminist bloggers have suffered various forms of internet abuse that most law enforcement officials simply refuse to address at all. If anything good can come out of this episode, I hope that will change.

She said it here.

Irony is not lost that Palin’s situation might inspire affirmative legal protection might otherwise have been bitterly opposed by her fellow partisans. But there you go.