Perspective: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail

Cnet News ^ | January 9, 2006 | Declan McCullagh

[MiHeat]

Read their sites. Basically they don't get snail mail because of the Anthrax letters. By the way, what ever happened to that?

[atomicpossum]

I am simply SHOCKED to see Arlen Specter's name attached to something so dimwitted, particularly on something involving technology invented since the buggy whip. [/sarc]

Really, Specter is an ass, and shows as little understanding of the technological present day as, well, most of his fellow Congressmen. Seeing such ham-handed drivel from him is soooo common...

[Sir Gawain]

If President Bush truly believed in the principle of limited government (it is in his official bio)

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[MarkL]

DU Trolls heading off to jail?

Mark

[angkor]

Specter is an ass, and shows as little understanding of the technological present day as

You have to wonder what was the springboard for this legislation.

Is there a lobbyist out there making the case against "annoying" email?

Who would have thought of such a thing aside from the Congressional and Senate stiffs who get "annoying email" every day?

Talk about living in a bubble. This is like some screwball legislation from 1995.

[dirtboy]

You have to wonder what was the springboard for this legislation.

Probably all the emails from freepers calling him a stinkin' RINO.

[bkepley]

Not anon.

[bkepley]

Not anon.

[pabianice]

How wonderful! An end to spam! I can't wait to tell everyone aboard the Mother Ship...

[A. Pole]

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. [...] This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two years in prison.

"Violence Against Women"? What about the spam?

[Bon mots]

So when we trash Hitlery, as long as it is not directly addressed to her, we should be OK.

Hillary Clinton? You are the one who turned this into a Hillary thread... not me.
Dick Cheney likes President Bush very much.

But I know for a fact, that Hillary likes Bush more than Dick.

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Can I be the first to insult Hillary after the passage of this new law?

[Halgr]

You have to wonder what was the springboard for this legislation.

Probably all the emails from freepers calling him a stinkin' RINO.

LOL.....there's probably more truth to this than we know....

I've emailed him and given him a piece of my mind....LOL

[PAR35]

Not anon.

Come on. You don't even give a clue as to state. And is it B. Kepley or B.K. Epley. Arguably anyone who doesn't post their DOB and SS number is anonymous. "bkepley hasn't created an about page."

[expatguy]

Im annoyed by people who ack like "Mr. Know-it-all" on the internet.

YOU don't tell me what to do.

[Paul C. Jesup]

If that is the case than it can be declared unconstitutional on the grounds that you cannot pass one law hidden in the fine print of another law. (I forgot the legal term for it).

Then there are the first admendment grounds.

Finally if all else fails, we start the actual shooting revolution.

[jb6]

It's all part of that "compassion"....the government will feel for you as well as think for you now.

[jb6]

As long as you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear....but just incase we'll keep passing laws until you do.

[Frank_2001]

I can imagine that The Most Sublime and Glorious Empress Hillary! will NOT be pleased;)

[jb6]

Yes, but outside of the loss of income to the sender, think about how rich our lawyers will continue to get. For a nation that has outsourced our manufacturing and our engineers and pretty much everything else, we've finally found a growth industry that can't be outsourced.

[jb6]

Seeing such ham-handed drivel from him is soooo common...

Becareful, he might see that and be annoyed and then the Storm Troopers will come.