Weiner blowback?
So free republic would be illegal in New York?
Signed
Daisy Q. Duck
“Republican State Senators Dean Murray and Thomas OMara”
Terrible. These “Republicans” need to be tarred and feathered right out of office.
“Big Brother” wants to know who I am.
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...
How would they apply this rule to websites hosted overseas? Or in other states?
Hope that includes anonymous sources in news articles as well.
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?
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.”
Such as articles authored by ‘Publius’ ?
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.
FR does not have this problem:
"Comment removed by moderator."
Fixed.
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
FYI
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.
Northeast Republicans... Misunderstanding the Constitution since 1946...
Add another lawsuit to the SCOTUS docket. Are they going to also pass a law that you must state your full name and Social Security number before talking to someone on the street? If the government would stop threatening to sodomize us perhaps we wouldn’t see a need to post anonymously. Time to go feed my two beloved war horses, Nelson and Blueskin.
Not sure what is to be accomplished from legislation like this, but I know that if it passes, I will be spending much less time at work (NYC) on the internet.
You’ll need an “ID” to post on the internet but voting...well, anonymity is OK there?
This would have made the Federalist Papers illegal. “Publius” was anonymous at the time.