[quote]Our elected representatives let us down again…
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.[/quote]
DummiesUnderground and Kos Kids must be shitting pineapples over this…
I don’t really foresee this crap actually causing much trouble.
I believe that the “freedom to be a dumbass on the internet” precedent has already been established.
[quote=“Matchstick_man”][quote]Our elected representatives let us down again…
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.[/quote]
That is truly stupid. Here’s some of the key text of the law.
Fortunately, it will be struck down by the federal courts as overly vague, ambiguous and unconstitutional (not to mention largely unenforceable), but it’s too bad our elected leaders are dumb enough to waste their time on such stupidity and the courts will be forced to respond to it.
[url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester]
The End of the Internet?
The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.[/url]