Posted on 11/16/2011 2:57:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Using a pseudonym on Facebook or fibbing about your age on a dating site could be illegal if the U.S. Department of Justice has its way.
The DOJ is going to Congress today to argue that Web sites' terms of service policies should be enforceable by law, according to CNet. For that purpose, the department seeks an expansion of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a 25-year-old law that mainly deals with hacking, password trafficking, and threatening to damage a computer.
By outlawing terms of service violations, the department would have an easier time prosecuting cyberbullies such as Lori Drew, a 49-year-old woman who involved in a case where a 13-year-old girl committed suicide after interacting with a fake MySpace profile that Drew was involved with. Prosecutors got a conviction against Drew in 2008 for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but the case was thrown out by a U.S. District Court judge.
"It basically leaves it up to a website owner to determine what is a crime," U.S. District Judge George Wu said of his verdict in 2009. "And therefore it criminalizes what would be a breach of contract."
That's exactly what the Department of Justice is trying to do now, through Congress
Is the Solution Too Broad?
The department's heart is in the right place, of course, but as groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation pointed out in an August 2011 letter to the Judiciary Committee, outlawing terms of service violations is an overly broad way to solve the problem. In addition to snaring cyberbullies, it would also criminalize harmless fibs such as using a fake name on Facebook to protect privacy. It would also force people to digest needlessly long terms of service policies for online services,
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Hey DOJ, I know you lurk on here, here’s my message to you... GFYS!
[Any government official who can even propose this is a tyrant!]
Bears repeating - they need to remove Holder NOW.
Lol, can anyone imagine banning lying online, are they going to put a lie detector on each of us? Lol, all those dating sites, some people go to, are gonna go out of business first!
How about a law against lying by the President? Or a law against lying by the Attorney General when he’s under oath.
“Never let a crisis go to waste.”
Just the usual utterly corrupt United States Department of Justice doing its usual corrupt thing.
Damn...
I wish I had thought of Batman....
Way Cool.
How’s work?
See the first quote on my FR profile page.
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Every fishing message board in existence will be shut down.
Does this mean Mitt Romney can be prosecuted for claiming to to be conservative on his website?
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‘My Muslim faith....’
‘Wait - I’m really a Christian!’
‘I visited 57 states....’
‘....maybe a little blow....’
(maybe a lotta blow)
‘I was on the Hawaii State HS Championship Basketball Team.....”
(but I sat on the bench)
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Zathras have no problem telling everyone Zathras is Zathras.
Now must get back to working on Great Machine.
You forgot that Obama was in Asia while in Hawaii, lol, the man is dumb!! A Munchkin Candidate for sure.
Yup, the no lying online would kill the internet - except for nice people like me.......snicker.
Or, this is what they want everyone to think when they concoct these little schemes. But these folks are evil and do not have good intentions. Anybody care to defend Net Neutrality after reading this?
WTF???
Is this not the same outfit headed by a liar?
Is this not the same outfit who has proposed a law that allows them to lie?
And yet, this same outfit wants to bust me for lying for using a pseudonym?
I got a 2x4 with ‘Hypocrite’ written on it that I know can be used to bust them upside the head a few times. =.=
I'm on a blissful, self-imposed hiatus right now. Enougn with the 12+ hour days 7 days a week, sandstorms, bombs, spartan living conditions and boring chow-hall food. ;-)
I'll head back to that delightful life in early '12. I'm home for my first full football season in years, dang it!
How's thangs?
I like the idea that anyone with a law degree who lies any where at any time is guilty of perjury.
Right!
But he was learning to speak Austrian at the time -
Obama is redefining beyond the Pacific Rim as 'Asia'
Seems to me the Japanese once tried that.....
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NO, IM Spartacus!
Does Obama even know when he misspeaks, do any of his advisors even tell him he misspoke? I doubt the latter, but guess he sees it in any news that might expose it.
Perry has some good ads running on Fox News, I see them often.
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