Posted on 01/09/2006 8:52:31 PM PST by Lathspell
A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here's the relevant language. "Whoever...utilizes 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... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."It's illegal to annoy
"Duplicate posts are annoying."
But irony is not! :)
Hmmm, I just posted something annoying on another forum: at least it's only two years' max!
Liberals annoy me. Should we shut them down? We can start with DUh.
Not to mention this piece of crappy legislation just lets the lawyers (oh wait, that's most of our gubermint) have more reasons to sue and waste the people's monies, while making themselves rich.
Hurray for Gigantous, the government bureaucracy of no end and its legion of the billion laws....yup, surely each and every one of us in the Land of the Formerly Free, is a criminal of one stripe or another. After all, a government has no power over a free and innocent man.
That's great.
I'll be able to post annoying comments from Canada
but no one in the US using a fictitious screen-name
(i.e. everybody)
will be allowed to annoy me in response.
That one statement has said it all.
I really don't think this would stand up in court, but I could see an administration abusing this law to no end until such time that it was overturned.
Hilary? Did you vote for this so you'd have it for the future?
Wouldn't you know.
The main problem with these types of laws is that they make no attempt to define what constitutes harassment, they purposely leave them as broad as possible to allow the possibility of using them to crush anyone who deigns to vociferously disagree with the anointed ones.
Sounds sort of like a self-extinguishing law. If you didn't disclose your identity, how would they find you? And if they found you, it would be only because you'd disclosed your identity (inadvertently or not) so....
I'll probably end up in jail...LOL
Hey, my name isn't fictitious, I just haven't given my last name!
(P.S. Your mother dresses you funny!) ;p
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
My whole damn life is one big e-annoyance. If it weren't for FR, I'd move to the gulf and live on my boat with nothing more high-tech than a VHF radio.
It will be tossed on First Amendment grounds. Sadly, Snarlin' Arlen will still be around pushing more bilge. Gee, I hope I didn't annoy him with this post...actually I hope I did. Let him prosecute.
The Nigerans have "insulted" many with their spam. Does this ruling affect them too?
Admin Moderator: Please delete this duplicate posting, thanks.
public apologies are really annoying, too
(relax)
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