Create an e-annoyance, go to jail

[FVZA_Colonel]

http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance,+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html?part=rss&tag=6022491&subj=news



Perspective: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
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.

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.

[Seedersandleechers]

1. I'm not a computer expert, but isn't that what a firewall is for?

[Democrats_win]

3. Not a firewall. I bet it doesn´t even stop pop up ads. Law is anti-human

but corporations can do whatever they want.

[chat_noir]

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