Posted on 01/09/2006 8:57:10 AM PST by MensRightsActivist
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.
In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.com ...
Up against the keyboard. You're all under arrest.
I've now legally changed my name to "Nevergore" so poopy on all of you.......
Uh oh, I'm going to have the FBI on me...:)
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour p!ss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you.
You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.
You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood.
May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you.
You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool.
You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.
You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away.
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me.
After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything.
Your attempt at constructing a creative post was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
I hope there's no grandfather clause, considering some of the conversations I've had here on FR
Dude you made my day. That is so funny! I hope so too.
OK, I won't file charges on you if you won't file them on me. BTW, Microsoft sucks.
Oh, boy. I can't wait to "Report Abuse" now. I'll get even with all the mean Freepers who hurt my feelings.
Well, we use real names, so we're safe from another Bush attack, for now. And Apple blows.
No. I'm secretly Martin Fiero, but that name was already taken. Very annoying!
Annoying messages? That covers most of my posts
Related thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1554710/posts
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
SEC. 223. [47 U.S.C. 223] OBSCENE OR HARASSING TELEPHONE
CALLS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OR IN INTERSTATE OR
FOREIGN COMMUNICATIONS.
(a) Whoever--
(1) in interstate or foreign communications--
(A) by means of a telecommunications device knowingly--
(i) makes, creates, or solicits, and
(ii) initiates the transmission of,
any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or
other communication which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or
indecent, with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another
person;
(B) by means of a telecommunications device knowingly--
(i) makes, creates, or solicits, and
(ii) initiates the transmission of,
any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or
other communication which is obscene or indecent, knowing that
the recipient of the communication is under 18 years of age,
regardless of whether the maker of such communication placed the
call or initiated the communication;
(C) makes a telephone call or utilizes a telecommunications
device, whether or not conversation or communication ensues,
without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse,
threaten, or harass any person at the called number or who receives
the communications;
(D) makes or causes the telephone of another repeatedly or
continuously to ring, with intent to harass any person at the called
number; or
(E) makes repeated telephone calls or repeatedly initiates
communication with a telecommunications device, during which
conversation or communication ensues, solely to harass any person
at the called number or who receives the communication; or
(2) knowingly permits any telecommunications facility under his
control to be used for any activity prohibited by paragraph (1) with the
intent that it be used for such activity,
shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more
than two years, or both.
(b)(1) Whoever knowingly--
(A) within the United States, by means of telephone, makes
(directly or by recording device) any obscene communication for
commercial purposes to any person, regardless of whether the maker of
such communication placed the call; or
(B) permits any telephone facility under such person's control to be
used for an activity prohibited by subparagraph (A),
shall be fined in accordance with title 18, United States Code, or
imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
(2) Whoever knowingly--
(A) within the United States, by means of telephone, makes
(directly or by recording device) any indecent communication for
commercial purposes which is available to any person under 18 years of
age or to any other person without that person's consent, regardless of
whether the maker of such communication placed the call; or
(B) permits any telephone facility under such person's control to be
used for an activity prohibited by subparagraph (A), shall be fined not more
than $50,000 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
(3) It is a defense to prosecution under paragraph (2) of this subsection
that the defendant restricted access to the prohibited communication to persons 18
years of age or older in accordance with subsection (c) of this section and with
such procedures as the Commission may prescribe by regulation.
(4) In addition to the penalties under paragraph (1), whoever, within the
United States, intentionally violates paragraph (1) or (2) shall be subject to a fine
of not more than $50,000 for each violation. For purposes of this paragraph, each
day of violation shall constitute a separate violation.
(5)(A) In addition to the penalties under paragraphs (1), (2), and (5),
whoever, within the United States, violates paragraph (1) or (2) shall be subject to
a civil fine of not more than $50,000 for each violation. For purposes of this
paragraph, each day of violation shall constitute a separate violation.
(B) A fine under this paragraph may be assessed either--
(i) by a court, pursuant to civil action by the Commission or any
attorney employed by the Commission who is designated by the
Commission for such purposes, or
(ii) by the Commission after appropriate administrative
proceedings.
(6) The Attorney General may bring a suit in the appropriate district court
of the United States to enjoin any act or practice which violates paragraph (1) or
(2). An injunction may be granted in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure.
(c)(1) A common carrier within the District of Columbia or within any
State, or in interstate or foreign commerce, shall not, to the extent technically
feasible, provide access to a communication specified in subsection (b) from the
telephone of any subscriber who has not previously requested in writing the carrier
to provide access to such communication if the carrier collects from subscribers an
identifiable charge for such communication that the carrier remits, in whole or in
part, to the provider of such commuication.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), no cause of action may be brought
in any court or administrative agency against any common carrier, or any of its
affiliates, including their officers, directors, employees, agents, or authorized
representatives on account of--
(A) any action which the carrier demonstrates was taken in good
faith to restrict access pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection; or
(B) any access permitted--
(i) in good faith reliance upon the lack of any representation
by a provider of communciations that communications provided by
that provider are communications specified in subsection (b), or
(ii) because a specific representation by the provider did not
allow the carrier, acting in good faith, a sufficient period to restrict
access to communications described in subsection (b).
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of this subsection, a provider of
communications services to which subscribers are denied access pursuant to
paragraph (1) of this subsection may bring an action for a declaratory judgment or
similar action in a court. Any such action shall be limited to the question of
whether the communications which the provider seeks to provide fall within the
category of communications to which the carrier will provide access only to
subscribers who have previously requested such access.
(d) Whoever--
(1) in interstate or foreign communications knowingly--
(A) uses an interactive computer service to send to a
specific person or persons under 18 years of age, or
(B) uses any interactive computer service to display in a
manner available to a person under 18 years of age,
any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other
communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently
offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or
excretory activities or organs, regardless of whether the user of such
service placed the call or initiated the communication; or
(2) knowingly permits any telecommunications facility under such
person's control to be used for an activity prohibited by paragraph (1) with
the intent that it be used for such activity,
shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more
than two years, or both.
(e) In addition to any other defenses available by law:
(1) No person shall be held to have violated subsection (a) or (d)
solely for providing access or connection to or from a facility, system, or
network not under that person's control, including transmission,
downloading, intermediate storage, access software, or other related
capabilities that are incidental to providing such access or connection that
does not include the creation of the content of the communication.
(2) The defenses provided by paragraph (1) of this subsection shall
not be applicable to a person who is a conspirator with an entity actively
involved in the creation or knowing distribution of communications that
violate this section, or who knowingly advertises the availability of such
communications.
(3) The defenses provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall
not be applicable to a person who provides access or connection to a
facility, system, or network engaged in the violation of this section that is
owned or controlled by such person.
(4) No employer shall be held liable under this section for the
actions of an employee or agent unless the employee's or agent's conduct is
within the scope of his or her employment or agency and the employer (A)
having knowledge of such conduct, authorizes or ratifies such conduct, or
(B) recklessly disregards such conduct.
(5) It is a defense to a prosecution under subsection (a)(1)(B) or
(d), or under subsection (a)(2) with respect to the use of a facility for an
activity under subsection (a)(1)(B) that a person--
(A) has taken, in good faith, reasonable, effective, and
appropriate actions under the circumstances to restrict or prevent
access by minors to a communication specified in such subsections,
which may involve any appropriate measures to restrict minors
from such communications, including any method which is feasible
under available technology; or
(B) has restricted access to such communication by
requiring use of a verified credit card, debit account, adult access
code, or adult personal identification number.
(6) The Commission may describe measures which are reasonable,
effective, and appropriate to restrict access to prohibited communications
under subsection (d). Nothing in this section authorizes the Commission to
enforce, or is intended to provide the Commission with the authority to
approve, sanction, or permit, the use of such measures. The Commission
shall have no enforcement authority over the failure to utilize such
measures. The Commission shall not endorse specific products relating to
such measures. The use of such measures shall be admitted as evidence of
good faith efforts for purposes of paragraph (5) in any action arising under
subsection (d). Nothing in this section shall be construed to treat interactive
computer services as common carriers or telecommunications carriers.
(f)(1) No cause of action may be brought in any court or administrative
agency against any person on account of any activity that is not in violation of any
law punishable by criminal or civil penalty, and that the person has taken in good
faith to implement a defense authorized under this section or otherwise to restrict
or prevent the transmission of, or access to, a communication specified in this
section.
(2) No State or local government may impose any liability for commercial
activities or actions by commercial entities, nonprofit libraries, or institutions of
higher education in connection with an activity or action described in subsection
(a)(2) or (d) that is inconsistent with the treatment of those activities or actions
under this section: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall preclude any State
or local government from enacting and enforcing complementary oversight,
liability, and regulatory systems, procedures, and requirements, so long as such
systems, procedures, and requirements govern only intrastate services and do not
result in the imposition of inconsistent rights, duties or obligations on the provision
of interstate services. Nothing in this subsection shall preclude any State or local
government from governing conduct not covered by this section.
(g) Nothing in subsection (a), (d), (e), or (f) or in the defenses to
prosecution under subsection (a) or (d) shall be construed to affect or limit the
application or enforcement of any other Federal law.
(h) For purposes of this section--
(1) The use of the term ''telecommunications device'' in this section-
(A) shall not impose new obligations on broadcasting
station licensees and cable operators covered by obscenity and
indecency provisions elsewhere in this Act; and
(B) does not include an interactive computer service.; and
(C) in the case of subparagraph (C) of subsection (a)(1), includes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet (as such term is defined in section 1104 of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (47 U.S.C. 151 note)).
(2) The term ''interactive computer service'' has the meaning
provided in section 230(e)(2).
(3) The term ''access software'' means software (including client or
server software) or enabling tools that do not create or provide the content
of the communication but that allow a user to do any one or more of the
following:
(A) filter, screen, allow, or disallow content;
(B) pick, choose, analyze, or digest content; or
(C) transmit, receive, display, forward, cache, search,
subset, organize, reorganize, or translate content.
(4) The term ''institution of higher education'' has the meaning
provided in section 1201 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1141).
(5) The term ''library'' means a library eligible for participation in
State-based plans for funds under title III of the Library Services and
Construction Act (20 U.S.C. 355e et seq.).
So9
Specter. It figures. We ought to tie a bell on that sneaky bastard.
"The bill is sponsored yo the Democrats no doubt."
And signed by Bush, the sometimes conservative.
President Bush was FINALLY going to use the VETO on this bill, but when he went to sign his name, it had gone dry. Damn, better luck next time......
Well folks no body can blame this or for that matter any other sorry piece of law written since 1995 solely on the DEMs that dog don't hunt anymore. The GOP holds both houses. The remedy to this is simple. A prohibition on attaching rider bills to any unrelated legislation. In other words make the sorry scum in both parties using this type of back door tyranny pass all laws or most laws one bill at a time. This should be the case for all legislation. Granted fewer bills would get passed but I fail to see a down side to that either.
I doubt the law uses the word "annoy." Just doesn't sound very legal. Harass, maybe.
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