[Lokutus]

New Law signed by Bush reads:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.03402:
"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."

Got that specop? Since you only post to harrass peeps, you will need to include your real name and address with every post.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', '
')Got that specop? Since you only post to harrass peeps, you will need to include your real name and address with every post.

[Lokutus]

The article is behind the Time's new pay wall, so I won't bother posting the link.

[Daculling]

Here's the cnet article, ridiculous. I guess I'm a felon now.

Cnet

[entropyfails]

I'm certain that Specop finds you all annoying as well. *laugh* I guess we are all felons now.

Perhaps I need to change my sig to...

DISCLAIMER: THIS POST IS NOT INTENDED TO ANNOY ANYONE FOR ANY REASON. ANY ANNOYANCE YOU FEEL COMES FROM ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS BEYOND THE POSTERS CONTROL, PERHAPS FROM AN INSECT OR BARKING DOG THAT YOU CAN SUE. IF YOU FEEL ANNOYED BY THIS POST, PLEASE PRESENT YOURSELF TO A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL FOR CONSULING OR EUTHANASIA, WHICHEVER ANNOYS YOU LEAST.

[Kylon]

Hypothetical situation-


I know why this law was made.


You decide to write something bad about about the government.

Your website annoys the government.

You become a felon, and can't vote.

Thus, only people who abide to the in power administration, can vote, or have anything in the government, or have any power. This makes the administration have absolute power.

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[smallpoxgirl]

No. Sadly this is another step in the pathetic liberal, PC agenda to create a world that is completely padded and child proofed where no one speaks to eachother except in lullabies and Barneyisms.

Specop. Are you paying attention. You hate liberals right? The liberals that passed this piece of garbage were REPUBLICANS!

Just please don't get annoyed with me!

By the way. In case anyone was wondering, Smallpoxgirl is infact my full legal name.

[The_Virginian]

CongressCritters need to be trapped and told an earful about how this needs changing ASAP.

While they do have to prove intent, Federal Courts have over the 90% conviction rates that should make one shudder.

[The_Toecutter]

CongressCritters know what they are doing is illegal anyway. At this stage, they need to be culled.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'N')ew Law signed by Bush reads:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.03402:
"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."

Got that specop? Since you only post to harrass peeps, you will need to include your real name and address with every post.

[Daculling]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', 'H')ypothetical situation-


I know why this law was made.


You decide to write something bad about about the government.

Your website annoys the government.

You become a felon, and can't vote.

Thus, only people who abide to the in power administration, can vote, or have anything in the government, or have any power. This makes the administration have absolute power.

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[crow]

What if someone was to complain to the authorities of a particular poster?

Is there a site where we can report others or do we just dial 911?

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('crow', 'W')hat if someone was to complain to the authorities of a particular poster?

Is there a site where we can report others or do we just dial 911?

[Lokutus]

I know some of you out there like to take things to extremes...you have been warned

http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0112/c ... t_ctv.html

Gillespie, 53, claims that Marlowe and Bob Charpentier, a 52-year-old Oregon resident, insulted him and harassed him in the AOL chatroom called "Romance — Older Men" to the point where it inflicted "severe emotional distress and physical injury that is of a nature no reasonable man could be expected to endure it."

The complaint, expected in court on Jan. 31 for a pretrial conference, also names AOL as a defendant for allowing the alleged harassment to take place.

Mike Marlowe fully admits that he sometimes gave George Gillespie a hard time in that AOL chatroom.

But never in his wildest imagination did he expect to be sued in court for what he characterized as "razzing."

"We gave him crap," said Marlowe, a 33-year-old welder in Fayette, Ala. "I'm not going to deny it. I teased him and he teased me back. He gave it back better than he ever got it."

A generation ago, such petty personal beefs might have been settled with fists outside the corner bar, but now it's the Internet age — and Ohio resident George Gillespie instead filed a $25,000 lawsuit against two erstwhile cyber chums he met in the sprawling 900-room, mostly anonymous society that makes up AOL's chat universe

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'I') know some of you out there like to take things to extremes...you have been warned

[Leanan]

Shrub signed a law making it illegal to annoy people on the Internet:

http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyan ... 22491.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t'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.

In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.

This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two years in prison.

[FoxV]

I love the "Department of Justice Reauthorization Act" part of the title

ie, reauthorizing the justice department to be able to arrest anyone at any time.

And I would be very annoyed with anyone who disagrees with me

[backstop]

I find it profoundly annoying that Congress has passed a bill with such brazen gender discrimination - even in its title !

Where is my redress ?

Backstop

[Chaparral]

Well, In case I've annoyed anyone, my real name is Gofaka Yusef. My address is well, lets see, there's that crackhouse in Compton that would work...yeah, it you have a problem, come see me at the 13000 S. Broadway block in Compton, Calif USA. It it appears to have been raided by the Sherrifs Dept or worse, bulldozed and turned into a tilt-up industrial bldg, just keep tooling around the side streets until you see a house with some mean dudes hanging out in front and yell out my name. Some one will likely come out to assist you.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'N')ew Law signed by Bush reads:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.03402:
"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."