you're annoying Gruss, shhh On 1/9/06, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/czaml > > 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. > > "The use of the word 'annoy' is particularly problematic," says Marv > Johnson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. > "What's annoying to one person may not be annoying to someone else." > --------- > And once more they stuck this into a completely unrelated Bill. > It should be against the law to include unrelated items onto Bills in > order to force them through, since if the original Bill is good to > vote against the clause one does not like would mean voting against > the total Bill. > > It's ridiculous. > > What do Americans think of this? > >
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