Anonymous no more?

[Roxanne Appleby]

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

Now now, Geronimo, how many times did I warn you about your temper before the divorce? Besides, who's the one running away in this thread?

 

[starrkers]

Why is it politicians like to spout these things? Is it just to show their collective ignorance and thumb their noses at the voting public - "Look, you idiots, you put ME in a position of power" ?

Consider for a nanosecond that this bill got up. How the hell would this law be enforced? It's a US law on an international entity. I don't live in the US, I am not bound by US law. Therefore, screw you, I'll be as anonymous as I bloody well like and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Time to call a compulsory emergency sitting of all parliamentary houses and then lock the doors and cut the phone lines so they can't get out. Then we put a high fence around them, call them asylums and forget about 'em (just like they do now ).

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Why is it politicians like to spout these things? Is it just to show their collective ignorance and thumb their noses at the voting public - "Look, you idiots, you put ME in a position of power" ?

Consider for a nanosecond that this bill got up. How the hell would this law be enforced? It's a US law on an international entity. I don't live in the US, I am not bound by US law. Therefore, screw you, I'll be as anonymous as I bloody well like and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Time to call a compulsory emergency sitting of all parliamentary houses and then lock the doors and cut the phone lines so they can't get out. Then we put a high fence around them, call them asylums and forget about 'em (just like they do now ).

You aren't planning on throwing any food over the fence, are you? Think how much fun it would be to watch them eat each other.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Now now, Geronimo, how many times did I warn you about your temper before the divorce? Besides, who's the one running away in this thread?

how are the children?

is cymbelene still in nappies? my god, she must be 27 now!

are you feeding them on more than gruel?

 

[sr71plt]

Why is it politicians like to spout these things? Is it just to show their collective ignorance and thumb their noses at the voting public - "Look, you idiots, you put ME in a position of power" ?

Consider for a nanosecond that this bill got up. How the hell would this law be enforced? It's a US law on an international entity. I don't live in the US, I am not bound by US law. Therefore, screw you, I'll be as anonymous as I bloody well like and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Time to call a compulsory emergency sitting of all parliamentary houses and then lock the doors and cut the phone lines so they can't get out. Then we put a high fence around them, call them asylums and forget about 'em (just like they do now ).

It's not functionally that much of an international entity. The US DARPA agency designed and cobbled it together (remember Al Gore's "I invented the Internet"?) and could dismantle it to the point that someone else (with there being few "someone elses" that could afford to do it) would restore it only with great difficulty. Thus, the U.S. government continues to be the elephant in the room whenever discussions of control of the Internet come up.

 

[rgraham666]

Sigh. What overreaction I'm reading here.

One idiot politician brings in an idiotic law, that won't pass, and all government everywhere and forever has been nothing but great evil.

Time for me to take a hiatus from political threads. They're depressing the hell out of me.

 

[oggbashan]

What chance has he got with King Og?

I've been dead for thousands of years before he was born and most hebrew scholars doubt that I was even human.

Then I masquerade as Henry VIII but he's dead too.

Or as Jeanne D'Artois but she lived BEFORE Henry VIII and was a powerful witch who disappeared when the executioners were looking for her.

Or as Fag-Ash Lil who is a fictional character in one of Jeanne D'Artois' stories based on a real person who was mentally unbalanced and now dead.

So I'm dead at least four times over.

I have one more unrevealed alt who is still virgin.

All my identities are not US resident and have multiple boltholes in offshore tax havens.

I'm as slippery as a US politician...

Og

 

[Pure]

note:

there are several moves to control "identities". one of particular interest is simply to have all adult sites require credit cards.

OTOH, has anyone here posted that the section 2257 of an internet law, requiring recording of personal data for those in 'adult' photos, has been declared unconstituional in the Appeals Court?

http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/07a0430p-06.pdf

 

[starrkers]

there are several moves to control "identities". one of particular interest is simply to have all adult sites require credit cards.

OTOH, has anyone here posted that the section 2257 of an internet law, requiring recording of personal data for those in 'adult' photos, has been declared unconstituional in the Appeals Court?

http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/07a0430p-06.pdf

Damn. That's a pity. I don't have a credit card. I use my husband's.

 

[john-the-author]

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!!!

Actually, he's in the Kentucky State legislature, but it's still a pretty dumb idea.

How about this: this bill passes in Kentucky. A small business springs up north of the border and elsewhere, where you can log in, create an ID with a name and address... or not, what the hell? and then use that like an anonymizer that you can post to websites in Kentucky.

Because there's nothing the police and the FBI would like better than to check out a few million Canadian or Bahamian addresses a week. Or Russian, even better.

 

[oggbashan]

Damn. That's a pity. I don't have a credit card. I use my husband's.

Og gets offered about thirty credit cards a week.

Apparently Og has a good credit rating. Being dead doesn't appear to matter.

Og

 

[john-the-author]

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'm in a similar boat, LL, complicated by a fair amount of fame and visibility in my profession. (I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours!) But this isn't workable no matter what, so wtf?

 

[HappyLlama]

I'll just chew on some fresh grass in my mountain hideaway. The worst that could happen is that I'd be put behind bars, or in a zoo.

 

[sr71plt]

I'll just chew on some fresh grass in my mountain hideaway. The worst that could happen is that I'd be put behind bars, or in a zoo.

Or made into a handbag.

 

[LoquaciousLady]

I'm in a similar boat, LL, complicated by a fair amount of fame and visibility in my profession. (I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours!) But this isn't workable no matter what, so wtf?

No, it's not at all workable. I think the internet has demonstrated remarkably well that there are limits to how much it can be regulated. The fact that anyone even thought it was a good idea is terrifying to me, though. The full article indicated that some of the constituents of this idiot agree with him.

Oh, and I got out of the business of showing mine many moons ago.