NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums...

NJ legislislation ^ | 3/6/06

[binkdeville]

I don't write a lot bu tI felt this absurd bill needed to be addressed. My phone bill here in NJ CONSTANTLY has new taxes on it .NJ is more corrupt than Nero's Rome. go to www.insideunioncity.com sometime and see what goes on in my neighborhood.

[capecodconservative]

I knew I was unfortunate enough to live in a people's republic. Didn't know that NJ was going Kremlin too.

[Former Dodger]

Thanks for the ping.

I wonder if there's an exemption for anonymous postings in casinos?

(D) or (R), the politicians in this state are ridiculous!

[Billthedrill]

Biondi wets the bed. No, really. I got pitchers...

[Bushman2]

I have to use an undercover name because I used to tend bar for the Cape Cod Orca and now I am looking over my shoulder all the time. Oh, the stories I culd tell.

[Calpernia]

Not elected. Try Selected.

We have many bump lists here at FR about voter fraud.

[conservative in nyc]

Anonymous speech is protected under the first amendment.

This law is very troubling, especially the very low standard for unmasking another poster - say one thing that someone else thinks is "false", and you're unmasked. But I'm sure its proponents would counter that the First Amendment doesn't protect slander, and this registration requirement is a means toward getting at the source of the slander.

I guess Mr. Biondi would have sued Thomas Paine since he said some nasty things about the king. And heaven knows what he would have done to that evil satirist "Mark Twain". He needs to grow a spine.

[highlander_UW]

Yes, that and stalking. I always posted under my real name until I started seeing people get threats, their children get threatened, their pastors written to, employers threatened; it got really ugly fast.

Very true, stalkers would be empowered as well.

[Postman]

This idiot totalitarian is one of our republican stalwarts...illustrative of why the PRNJ is now run by democrats...

[Aliska]

Well, they can allready find out who you are if the FBI or some enforcement agency wants to.

That's what I was referring to.

The question, I think, is more to how public this law would make these records.

Probably some internet registry like a phone book where you can't opt out. I don't think it will get through yet.

I have no problem with registering to post. It would be thereafter, what was going to be done with that information.

To some extent, I do, but I'm not going to be intimidated into not registering if it's something I want to do. Sometimes having to register makes me back off though.

I really don't like ANYBODY storing my credit card information. If a site gets hacked into, I can't even remember all the people who might have it that I would need to go and change. Most people who have it didn't TELL me they were storing it. Some sites do ask. And who wants to type in all that info each time? Even if you did, there's no guarantee on your end that they won't store it.

Somebody somehow got my sister's credit card not too long ago and charged THOUSANDS of dollars on it from Canadian vendors. She had a high limit and didn't know anything about it until she went to charge something, and it was refused, right at Christmas. Fortunately, the credit card company covered the loss and issued her a new card.

[Aliska]

If it were my state, I'd holler, too. There, I already left a clue :-).

[righttackle44]

"ominous if true"

Not ominous. I don't happen to be afraid
of the state of New Jersey.

[Candor7]

It would never survive a 1st amendment challenge.

[Hill of Tara]

you'd better never get into a car with a stranger who happens to be a longtime senator from massachusetts, especially if you cant swim.

he may want to make sure the skeletons in his closet stay buried.

[Mike Darancette]

Y'all going to jail.

[metmom]

It would be more "dangerous" if peoples' real names are used, anyway...

Yeah, but it would be easier for Big Brother er, our beloved leaders to track down any insurrection.

[WKB]

[Hill of Tara]

"Thanks for the ping.
I wonder if there's an exemption for anonymous postings in casinos?

(D) or (R), the politicians in this state are ridiculous!"

Seriously!! NJ is probably the 2nd most corrupt and poorly run state in the Union.

Well, to look at the glass half full, at least it's better than Massachusetts.

take care,

Hill of Tara

[Lijahsbubbe]

But any site that asks for a "real name" is never guaranteed to get it.

Got that right! You'd have to be a flamin'idiot.

[M203M4]

Sounds like some mean people on the interweb made the guy cry. Maybe he should read some books about totalitarianism (before he plans on banning them, I mean).