Create an e-annoyance, go to jail

[Chuck]

It's not a joking matter.

President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying messages or sending annoying e-mails without disclosing your true identity.

In other words, it's OK to trash someone on a forum site or in a blog as long as you do use your real name.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode47/usc_sec_47_00000223----000-.html

Buried deep in this new law is Sec. 113, section "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet to post a message "without disclosing their identity and with intent to annoy."

That is one of three bills I am expecting to pass into law. The second of 3 laws ,which is in the final stages, prohibits Internet users from posting topics on forum sites and blog that are of a political nature. I call this the "All Fluff" bill.

The third prohibits the use of Internet Proxies that hide you identity and location.

We may well be under way to Full Government Internet Censorship.

The bill was signed into law something in January. I have been watching a couple of suits that are attempting to challenge this law. Time will tell...

[mark]

..............sounds like an infringement on the 1st amendment.

I think it shouldn't pass at all................see ya mark

[nickleahevan]

With all they are trying to change I wouldn't be surprised to see the first amendment changed to "Freedom of Speech: As Long as the Government Agrees With What You Say". This is just my opinion. Maybe I'm looking at this in the wrong way, but it sure seems this way.

[who cares??]

I don't understand why more people aren't outraged by the total lack of regard for the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the basic civil rights of ALL AMERICANS.....The current administration is aniliating the rights of the workers, women and all americans. France just had huge protests and riots around labor issues similar to the Right to Work act that is moving across our country yet we remain complacent. What does it take to get Americans off the couch???? Who really cares??

[DecupldSolutions]

Thanks for mentioning this topic. Would not have noticed otherwise. And that's probably why people are not outraged Who Cares?.

http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance,+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html

Might offer a little more info on the subject. It appears this bill is a protection from violence against women. So who would oppose something like that?

The real motivations are questionable. The Cnet article brings up many good points.

That is one of three bills I am expecting to pass into law. The second of 3 laws ,which is in the final stages, prohibits Internet users from posting topics on forum sites and blog that are of a political nature. I call this the "All Fluff" bill.

The third prohibits the use of Internet Proxies that hide you identity and location.

We may well be under way to Full Government Internet Censorship.


Having trouble finding the text that states those 3 laws things. Care to copy out of a library of congress link and paste? Very interested in the 3rd one. Since the government themselves are very interested in using a few programs. They would have to prosecute themselves.

Pardon me if I laugh at the whole Full Government Internet Censorship thing. I wonder if China really thinks they have a handle on the internet. Heh. Let 'em try.

Dubya ya cracker fool. And the rest of the lot.

So, Who Cares?, what does it take to get Americans off the couch? The average American? Another bag of doritos? A cell phone? A Hummer? (The kind of hummer that drinks a lot of gas that is.) I have to admit, the promise of a hummer would get me off the couch. The family subject sort of hummer that is. Of course if we aren't subject to the dhimmi implied by consuming copious amounts of Arab Royal, Dubya endorsed and approved - go, go juice. Or high octane gas if you prefer.

Wait a minute, what were we talking about again?

Oh yea..... who really cares? I do. What's next?