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U.S. Department of Justice Seeks Law Against Lying Online (No more Facebook Pseudonyms?)
PC World ^ | 11/16/2011 | By Jared Newman

Posted on 11/16/2011 2:57:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: EGPWS

Yes....It is like secret ballots and unions HATING that!!!!

..what the government wants is to be able to Alinskyite anyone who happens to express “opinions” which disagree with their homosexual loving, pederasty loving, Marxist loving opinions. They will use FBI, CIA or IRS on their “enemies” like they did to Gibson Guitars and they did to people who gave money to protect marriage.

Their pagan/marxist agenda has to get rid of Objective Truth (and God) so they can eliminate pederasty from APA dysfunctional list and create more sexual anarchy on college campuses. They want drug addicted, hedonists who don’t pay attention to all the graft and corruption in Congress.

It undermines their agenda when people put the truth out there. Communists must silence the Truth from getting out—it makes their ideas look utterly stupid-—like the right to put body parts in disease causing places and CODIFY it!!!!! These Democrats and some Republicans are really SICK!


21 posted on 11/16/2011 3:16:01 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: EGPWS

Nobody uses Bob Dole’s name but me.....and nobody puts their fingers in Bob Dole’s Peanut Butter.


22 posted on 11/16/2011 3:17:12 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Damn, now we won’t be able to mention any quotes from Mark Twain or Vanilla Ice.


23 posted on 11/16/2011 3:17:32 PM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: SeekAndFind

My real name is KickAssAndTakeNames. But I do feel that GOP Poet sort of speaks to my softer side. :-D. And we know how FR is a softer, gentler website. lol. NOT!


24 posted on 11/16/2011 3:17:49 PM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: Riley
I'm Spartacus.

I'm Batman.

25 posted on 11/16/2011 3:17:59 PM PST by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: manc

Holder needs to be frog-walked right out of DOJ


26 posted on 11/16/2011 3:18:38 PM PST by Walrus (Big media is the natural enemy of liberty)
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To: Allegra

I’m the Empress of Massachusetts.


27 posted on 11/16/2011 3:18:54 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SeekAndFind
History repeats itself, Samuel Adams used pseudonyms such as "Candidus" in the Boston Gazette prior to the Revolution.

Here we go again!

28 posted on 11/16/2011 3:20:03 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: dfwgator
Nobody uses Bob Dole’s name but me.....and nobody puts their fingers in Bob Dole’s Peanut Butter.

I'M THE REAL BOB DOLE!

I hate peanut butter!

29 posted on 11/16/2011 3:21:12 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m George P. Burdell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P._Burdell


30 posted on 11/16/2011 3:23:20 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: douginthearmy
Is there something wrong with the internet? Are people clamoring for new laws?

The only thing "wrong" is Congress can't stand the thought that there is a single morsel, a single crumb, outside it jurisdiction.

31 posted on 11/16/2011 3:23:42 PM PST by 6SJ7 (Meh!)
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To: trisham

I am Patton. My parents cursed me with that name, I will wear it until they bury me in Arlington.


32 posted on 11/16/2011 3:23:48 PM PST by patton ("Je pense donc je suis," - My Horse.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Supreme Court has already ruled that anonymous speech is a right implied in the First Amendment [1]. Further, there is a world of Constitutional issues that will arise if Congress ever makes violation of TOS a criminal act. The first is that TOS are subject to change without notice. You could be in compliance on Monday and a felon on Tuesday. Some sites would respond by making their TOS useless to enforce. Other sites would move to offshore hosting and adopt a non-US domain name.

I am the BuckWheat!

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http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/

“...The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that the right to anonymous free speech is protected by the First Amendment. A much-cited 1995 Supreme Court ruling in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission reads:

Protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse. Allowing dissenters to shield their identities frees them to express critical, minority views . . . Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society.

The tradition of anonymous speech is older than the United States. Founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym “Publius,” and “the Federal Farmer” spoke up in rebuttal. The US Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized rights to speak anonymously derived from the First Amendment.

The right to anonymous speech is also protected well beyond the printed page. Thus, in 2002, the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring proselytizers to register their true names with the Mayor’s office before going door-to-door. ...”


33 posted on 11/16/2011 3:24:59 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: SeekAndFind

Mildred Wilson here...


34 posted on 11/16/2011 3:25:19 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (I stand with Mr. Cain!)
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To: djf
Hasn’t the Supreme Court already ruled in some case that lying, despicable as it might be, is still part of the “freedom of speech” thingy?

Some federal courts have ruled the Stolen Valor Act unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. The Supreme Court recently said it would take that issue. If it's argued this term, there should be a decision next Spring.

Historically it has not been illegal to lie. Civil damages for lying can only be awarded if the recipient relies on the lie to his financial detriment and his reliance was justified. Criminal penalties for lying generally only apply in cases of fraud with proof of intent to defraud.

What the Justice Department is proposing is just wrong.

35 posted on 11/16/2011 3:28:45 PM PST by colorado tanker
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36 posted on 11/16/2011 3:31:09 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: SeekAndFind

My name Jose Jimenez, worlds greatest liar


37 posted on 11/16/2011 3:37:02 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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To: Riley
I'm Spartacus.

I'm Spartacus!
38 posted on 11/16/2011 3:37:08 PM PST by rockvillem
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To: Allegra

I’m afraidfortherepublic — literally.


39 posted on 11/16/2011 3:40:02 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: rockvillem; Riley

40 posted on 11/16/2011 3:40:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind (u)
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