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State representative Tim Couch wants to make posting anything on the Internet anonymously illegal. The bill would require anyone "contributing" to a website to register their real name, address and email address with that site. Websites would be fined $500 for each anonymous post. Couch wants to cut down on "online bullying." The ACLU will love that. Hey Timmy, in addition to trampling the First Amendment, we should just repeal all the others — except the Second, of course.
Kentucky legislator wants to ban anonymous Internet posting
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12:40 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Jordan Golson
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what is this in direct response to, I bet its juicycampus.com. Its sparked a lot of controversy recently, because I don't really know of very many other big anonymous bashing sites.
Hey, Couch... you suck! Say, I know... Why don't you ride your girl bike home and put on your sundress? You'd be so pretty...
Moreover, freedom of the press includes "the right of the lonely pamphleteer who uses carbon paper or a mimeograph as much as the large metropolitan publisher who uses the latest photocomposition methods."
-- Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665, 7604 (1972)
In KENTUCKY, and this would only apply to websites in Kentucky.
And let's be honest, would the legislature take him seriously?
@sample032: Would that be web sites developed in Kentucky? (are there many of those?) hosted in Kentucky? (there's got to be even less of those) or viewed in Kentucky?
I'm glad to see that someone has finally found something wrong with 'Anonymous', I've been scarred for life from all those anonymous postings I was subjected to dating back to those old dial up BBS's.
The photo above doesn't make any sense.
@fromparadise: Was trying to be all subtle with the China/firewall reference.
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