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New York statute will ban internet posting of anonymous comments
Coach is Right ^ | 5/29/2012 | Doug Book

Posted on 05/29/2012 10:02:49 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax

Two New York legislators have taken a page from the playbook of aspiring internet regulator Joe Lieberman by sponsoring a bill which would make the posting of anonymous comments illegal. The bill written by Republican State Senators Dean Murray and Thomas O’Mara states:

“A web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his…name to the post and confirms that his…IP address, legal name and home address are accurate. All web site administrators shall have a contact number or e-mail address for such removal requests clearly visible in any sections where comments are posted.” (1)

The stated purpose of the Act is“…to amend the civil rights law, in relation to protecting a person’s right to know who is...

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: anonymousposting; constitution; freespeech; internet; nysenate; supremecourt
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1 posted on 05/29/2012 10:02:59 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Oldpuppymax

Weiner blowback?


2 posted on 05/29/2012 10:06:48 AM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

So free republic would be illegal in New York?

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Daisy Q. Duck


3 posted on 05/29/2012 10:06:48 AM PDT by Yaelle
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“Republican State Senators Dean Murray and Thomas O’Mara”

Terrible. These “Republicans” need to be tarred and feathered right out of office.


4 posted on 05/29/2012 10:07:01 AM PDT by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: gundog

Weiner blowback?


Ew.


5 posted on 05/29/2012 10:07:45 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Oldpuppymax

“Big Brother” wants to know who I am.


6 posted on 05/29/2012 10:08:01 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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...unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his…name to the post and confirms that his…IP address, legal name and home address are accurate.

So is there any penalty for lying?! Yeah that's correct. My name REALLY is Nunya Bisness and my address is #1 Penthouse, Trump Towers, New York, NY and my IP really is from my internet provider out of Vanuatu, I never bothered to change it when I moved...

7 posted on 05/29/2012 10:08:36 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Oldpuppymax

How would they apply this rule to websites hosted overseas? Or in other states?


8 posted on 05/29/2012 10:09:52 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Oldpuppymax

Hope that includes anonymous sources in news articles as well.


9 posted on 05/29/2012 10:10:56 AM PDT by loucon
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During the American Revolution, did the newspapers that were circulated use the real name of the writers?

How many pen names did Benjamin Franklin have?

Did you know that, as a 16-year-old, Ben Franklin wrote letters to the The New-England Courant posing as a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood?


10 posted on 05/29/2012 10:11:10 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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If this statute existed in the 18th century Benjamin Franklin would be in trouble since he frequently wrote under pseudonyms; as did Madison, Hamilton, and Jay when they wrote the Federalist Papers under the name “Publius.”


11 posted on 05/29/2012 10:11:20 AM PDT by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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Such as articles authored by ‘Publius’ ?


12 posted on 05/29/2012 10:12:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: loucon
Hope that includes anonymous sources in news articles as well.

excellent point

13 posted on 05/29/2012 10:12:50 AM PDT by Troublemaker
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"New York statute will ban internet posting of anonymous comments"

New York statute will WOULD [If passed] ban internet posting of anonymous comments

Come on, "Coach", let's not let our command of our language slip to that of DU or MTV.

14 posted on 05/29/2012 10:13:18 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Yaelle
You just don't appreciate what a good think it would have been if Ben Franklin hadn't have been able to hide under the pseudonym of Silence Dogood. < / sarcasm >
15 posted on 05/29/2012 10:13:40 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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All web site administrators shall have a contact number or e-mail address for such removal requests

FR does not have this problem:

"Comment removed by moderator."

Fixed.

16 posted on 05/29/2012 10:14:03 AM PDT by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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I am sure that, in the spirit of consistency, they will amend this bill to include a prohibition on voice votes(i.e.anonymous votes) in the legislature

Sure


17 posted on 05/29/2012 10:16:32 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (I like Obamacare because Granny signed the will and I need the cash)
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To: Nachum

FYI


18 posted on 05/29/2012 10:17:01 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Oldpuppymax

if this law had been in effect 230 years ago, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay “…would have been forced to disclose their real names…” on the Federalist Papers, perhaps preventing the works of “Publius” being written.


19 posted on 05/29/2012 10:19:11 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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Northeast Republicans... Misunderstanding the Constitution since 1946...


20 posted on 05/29/2012 10:20:17 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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