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Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
January 9, 2006, 4:00 AM PT
By Declan McCullagh
Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.
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.
It's illegal to annoy
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."
Excellent! (post 12)
[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.]
Nobody discloses their true identity on the Internet.
Liberals take that to mean someone trying to debate them after they say something treasonous. About a week ago a liberal at DailyKos made some sort of cryptic remark in an email exchange that I guess now must have been in reference to their new silencing law. The same thing is true in real life with liberal professors slapping restraining orders on students who try to debate them. These are silencer laws. Liberals can and will use them in the future if they aren't struck down in the courts.
That President Bush would sign this and the IMBA law on January 6th that now has American males filling out paperwork in order to chat with a foreign female on the Internet...shows that he is not the kind of conservative I am still happy to have in office.
I think Bush compromised on our rights big-time in order to buy the Democrats lack of filibuster on Alito.
If so...it better darned be because Bush expects Alito to strike down these Democrat sponsored laws ASAP.