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Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.
CNET ^ | January 9, 2006 | Declan McCullagh

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.

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To: MensRightsActivist
So, when I post this:

The FLAME to end all FLAMES...

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas. I'll bet you couldn't pour piss 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 delusional 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 that 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 your of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame 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 have to put my real name down to identify me...HMMMM. That Flame was brought to you by Samuel Adams

201 posted on 01/09/2006 11:52:04 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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To: MensRightsActivist

So....does this mean no more harrassing annoying stalking our Congresscritters anymore without our real names? I think I see where this is coming from and going. We are an irritant to be dealt with.


202 posted on 01/09/2006 11:57:56 AM PST by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Oh, I think we both know of three or four for starters. ;-)


204 posted on 01/09/2006 12:00:41 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Dashing Dasher
"But, you probably don't stalk, harass or denigrate, belittle, defame... for sport... besides Hillary Clinton"

Unfortunately there are people on here who do. I am even aware of the fact that some will stalk others in REAL LIFE. Therefore, I do not favor anonymity.

205 posted on 01/09/2006 12:04:44 PM PST by TAdams8591 (The first amendment does NOT protect vulgar and obscene speech.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Repetition is not definition.

Since email can be blocked, please explain how this can occur.

206 posted on 01/09/2006 12:07:14 PM PST by Protagoras (If jumping to conclusions was an Olympic event, FR would be the training facility.)
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To: Marak

The ZOTS wil continue so long there are trolls to ZOT :)


207 posted on 01/09/2006 12:07:38 PM PST by Paul_Denton (The U.S. should adopt the policy of Oom Shmoom: Israeli policy where no one gives a sh*t about U.N.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Jim,

How does this new asininity from "conservative" government affect the average FReeper?


208 posted on 01/09/2006 12:09:26 PM PST by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: azhenfud

I demand a jury trial.


209 posted on 01/09/2006 12:10:40 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Congressman Billybob

...and we thought CFR was a slam to the 1st.

Government is continually infringing and incroaching inch by inch.


210 posted on 01/09/2006 12:11:54 PM PST by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: Protagoras
There are people that threaten others on blog sights. There are certain places where they sit and watch you and your postings and then post vile harassing, threatening comments about you.

They try to get your personal info and distribute it to all. Things of this nature, OR WORSE!!

211 posted on 01/09/2006 12:13:01 PM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; Michael Goldsberry; Dashing Dasher; Fierce Allegiance
So if I offend someone, does this mean I have to immediately freepmail them my name?

LOL! That's how I read it, too!

But you know, I think there never has been any anonymity ever online. It is very easy to trace anything and once published online, it seems to have a life of its own, as we see with the clowns.

Maybe we could start copyrighting our posts and then we use those copyright infringement laws??? They might have to start paying us royalties! (Might be an easy way to make some extra cash!) LOL!!!!

212 posted on 01/09/2006 12:13:48 PM PST by phantomworker ("Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake..." --William James)
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To: MensRightsActivist
The author of this CNET article is a reactionary putz. If you take 5 minutes to actually research the U.S Code and the amendment in question, you will see that what this does is to merely enable services like Vonage ("communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet") to be covered by this bill.

If you read the bill, an "Interactive Computer Service" is specifically excluded from the penalties.
213 posted on 01/09/2006 12:13:58 PM PST by SilentServiceCPO
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To: Jim Robinson

Would it mattered if I voted you "innocent"?

(I suppose I'm now guilty 'cause I use a "handle"...)


214 posted on 01/09/2006 12:14:08 PM PST by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: dead

I'm suing you for mental distress and general annoyance for that pic. I've got a new federal law to bolster my case.


215 posted on 01/09/2006 12:16:18 PM PST by bluefish (Holding out for worthy tagline...)
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To: Jim Robinson
I am a big joker. I am known to joke at others expense INCLUDING my own. I am always trying to make people laugh.

Do I need my name on my about page? :o)

216 posted on 01/09/2006 12:16:25 PM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.)
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To: martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day; Fierce Allegiance; TheBigB; Owl_Eagle; Lazamataz; ...

This will not affect me because I never do anything annoying.

Now let us all sing this new song to the tune of Kumbaya.


Ready ... ?


217 posted on 01/09/2006 12:18:09 PM PST by NicknamedBob (How can I compete in a world of Cat 5 and wireless when my brain is wired by knob and tube?)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; Michael Goldsberry; Dashing Dasher; Fierce Allegiance; Lazamataz
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Actually, I just noticed this. Wonder what it means?

218 posted on 01/09/2006 12:18:50 PM PST by phantomworker ("Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake..." --William James)
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To: phantomworker

It means our words of wisdom are something or the other.


219 posted on 01/09/2006 12:19:44 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim ("We're a meat-based society.")
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
"They try to get your personal info and distribute it to all. Things of this nature, OR WORSE!!"

So, if you post your real name and I know the state from which you hail, how much brites does it take to gather even more information about you? ie. a GOOGLE search to yield your phone number, address, etc..?

This move can't be too good.

220 posted on 01/09/2006 12:20:38 PM PST by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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