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| Lawmaker: Criminalize Anonymous Internet Posts | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 10 2008, 06:58 PM (127 Views) | |
| mynameis | Mar 10 2008, 06:58 PM Post #1 |
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Lawmaker: Criminalize Anonymous Internet Posts Monday March 10th, 2008 12:13 PM by BHDC Staff Rep. Tim Couch has filed a bill aimed at making anonymous commenting on Web sites illegal. “The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site,” according to press reports. “Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.” A Web site owner would have to pay a fine if someone posted anonymously on their site, if the bill were to become law. A first-offense fine would be five-hundred dollars. The Web site owner would have to pay one-thousand dollars for each offense after that. Couch said he hopes to cut down online bullying. http://bigheaddc.com/2008/03/10/lawmaker-wants-to-criminalize-anonymous-internet-posts |
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| outside | Mar 10 2008, 07:03 PM Post #2 |
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Why do I get the feeling it has nothing to do with this?
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| mynameis | Mar 10 2008, 07:21 PM Post #3 |
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| Shagata Ganai | Mar 10 2008, 07:27 PM Post #4 |
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"The mass of me lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." --Henry David Thoreau. |
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| Shagata Ganai | Mar 10 2008, 07:45 PM Post #5 |
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This action by this retarded rep is one of two things. 1) A knee-jerk reaction to someone he knows being toasted (flamed) online. Maybe he himself was bested in a test of intellect. 2) A blatant attemp to control a medium he neither values nor understands. Rest assured, however, others will pick up the hue and cry, in the name of A) "protecting the children" (Where are their parents?) B) Morality (which hs never been able to be legislated) or the idea of promoting "decency". More effed up American "values" we're killing and creating enemies at an alarming rate (not to mention all the innocents), the current president thinks he's King, the vice-president thinks he's Machiavelli, the dollar is now down from the tinfoil standard, heading for the "collection of rubber bands" standard, inflation is sending middle-class families to food pantries in greater numbers than ever before, and THIS touchhole is worried about on-line meanies bullying.....whom, exactly? We don't know what occurences caused him to launch this hare-brained idea, which hopefully, someone will explain to him. (Sir, the..ahhh interwebs, aaahh, you can't really...ummmm DO THAT, because,... umm..the servers may not be in the terrritorial US, and ahhh, there's this part of the ...aaahhhh ...Constitution, um the first part, that says............ |
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