Anonymous no more?

[Liar]

Any chance in hell a bill like this could pass?

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Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal

Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.

The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.

Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.

Read ze rest here

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Oh God, the stalkers will rejoice! Really, does this idiot really know wtf he's talking about?

 

[rgraham666]

Highly doubtful, VM.

Sigh. Humans.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

At this very moment, in our state supreme court, are two cases involving expressed truth.

You can be sued for saying the truth if someone reads your comment and infers something that places someone else in a negative light.

Let's say you mention that Jim Johnson once belonged to a labor union (true), and labor unions have a history of corruption and control by organized crime (true). If someone reads both statements and infers that Jim Johnson is Mafia, I have a suit!

 

[jomar]

It's one of those attention getting, make a statement, pr type of things.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

but... but...

what would trolly do then?

maybe he'd come and live at my house? then he could sit in the study and throw heavy objects at me as i attempt to write Loving Wives stories.

although, if he lived at my house i could charge rent for the room.

hmmmm *ponders*

is trolly clean? i doubt it. i bet he smells of wee, dead foxes, and faeces (origin indeterminate). mebbe the trolly-renting-a-room-idea is a bad one.

ah well, back to the poultry slaughter house for me. work is work after all.

 

[cantdog]

Save us, save us, from people who think There Oughta Be A Law.

 

[DesertPirate]

Most Congresscritters at any level would be lucky to find their ass with both hands when it come to technology. They are absolutely clueless. In Washington there might be 5 that know something about computers and the internet, the rest do what their tech staffer tells them to. Idoubt if it's any better at the state level except most don't have a staff type for IT.

If that doesn't scare you, I don't know what will.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Most Congresscritters at any level would be lucky to find their ass with both hands when it come to technology. They are absolutely clueless. In Washington there might be 5 that know something about computers and the internet, the rest do what their tech staffer tells them to. Idoubt if it's any better at the state level except most don't have a staff type for IT.

If that doesn't scare you, I don't know what will.

they could be in charge of 'the button'!

 

[glynndah]

they could be in charge of 'the button'!

The one that's supposed to be keeping their flies shut, perhaps? That seems to be more of a problem at the moment...

 

[3113]

I don't think it has a chance in hell of passing, but if it ever does...Good fuckin' luck enforcing such a law--at least against psudonyms.

 

[Guest]

Save us, save us, from people who think There Oughta Be A Law.

There Oughta Be A Law against those sorts of people, yannow?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Since my name really IS Stella Omega, I have nothing to worry about.

Isn't 3113 her legal name? I always thought it was. And Geronimo and Roxanne are related, right? Or divorced or something...

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Damnit All! First they pick on Anon. Next it will be Alts. Where does it end?

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Since my name really IS Stella Omega, I have nothing to worry about.

Isn't 3113 her legal name? I always thought it was. And Geronimo and Roxanne are related, right? Or divorced or something...

no, we're not. it's a lie spread by none other than roxanne herself.

dammit all.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Since my name really IS Stella Omega, I have nothing to worry about.

Isn't 3113 her legal name? I always thought it was. And Geronimo and Roxanne are related, right? Or divorced or something...

3113 is an alt for 1331, Stella. Everyone knows that.

 

[3113]

Since my name really IS Stella Omega, I have nothing to worry about.

Isn't 3113 her legal name?

Cell block number, actually. Ooops. I didn't mean to let that slip, but since we're no longer going to be allowed to be anonymous....

And I'm planning on looking you up, Stella, when I finally get out. Yur picture's real purdy.

 

[Katyusha]

Any chance in hell a bill like this could pass?

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Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal

Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.

The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.

Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.

Oh no thanks. While I wish that more websites would find something real to do about trolls, I see this as a seriously gross invasion of privacy. Not to mention that it puts internet posters in danger...we are all interconnected on the net and that includes the sickos. You can google I don't know how many people's full names and find out where they live, where they work, etc.

The chances of that passing? Depends on who's dumb and who's smart in Congress.

As I've been saying lately about several things, MORE LAWS ARE NOT THE ANSWER!!!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

It's the sort of thing that will eventually make the Libertarians a serious party. There is just a lot of stuff that is none of the government's damned business.

 

[Katyusha]

It's the sort of thing that will eventually make the Libertarians a serious party. There is just a lot of stuff that is none of the government's damned business.

I like the proposal that There Oughta Be a Law against the people who think There Oughta Be a Law against every single problem out there.

 

[LoquaciousLady]

It's the sort of thing that will eventually make the Libertarians a serious party. There is just a lot of stuff that is none of the government's damned business.

Well it's about time someone started taking us seriously. Maybe I'll secretly support the bill in hopes of making Libertarians a viable third party.

OK, seriously, this law scares me. Not that I think it has an ice cube's chance in Hades of passing but can you imagine if it did? I mean, if your name is John Smith you have no problem but with an unusual name like mine the internet is already a scary place. Just Googling my first name nets you all of three human beings. Adding my second narrows it down perfectly to ME. Add living in a small, isolated community where getting my home address and phone number wouldn't challenge a five year old and I would be afraid for my own safety if I weren't a gun-toting Libertarian wacko.

I sometimes wonder if part of the swearing-in of new congresspersons involves having your head inserted into your rectum of if it was already there before they ran for election.

 

[Katyusha]

I sometimes wonder if part of the swearing-in of new congresspersons involves having your head inserted into your rectum of if it was already there before they ran for election.

It gets jammed there as soon as you go into politics. One of the requirements of the job.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

It's one of those attention getting, make a statement, pr type of things.

Precisely. Using a bill that he has no illusions would ever even get a hearing and has no sincere desire to see passed to "blow a kiss" to his political base and contributors (who probably all share more genes than they admit to). It's a universal game played in every legislature and Congress by every pol - on both sides.

Tell me again why you all want to hand over ever greater resources and power to this class of people?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The desire to seek "public" office should immediately disqualify one from doing so.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Precisely. Using a bill that he has no illusions would ever even get a hearing and has no sincere desire to see passed to "blow a kiss" to his political base and contributors (who probably all share more genes than they admit to). It's a universal game played in every legislature and Congress by every pol - on both sides.

Tell me again why you all want to hand over ever greater resources and power to this class of people?

i notice you dodge the issue of our relationship, again, you bitch!