Cyber nice...OR ROT IN JAIL!
A big thank you to everyone's favorite Undead Zombie Policitican, Arlen Spector, for slipping in a nifty little rider to a must-pass piece of legislation to fund the Department of Justice. H.R. 3402 guises itself as a measure to combat "Violence against Women" and does so by bitch-slapping the Constitution.
Signed into Law by G-Dub last Thursday, a little rider in this bill modifies existant telephone harrasement laws to include the Internet. Now, these codes read:
"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."
Here's the relevant language on "Cyberstalking".
Well, gee, thanks for the specific language, guys! I mean, we all know what annoying is, right? It's as easy to identify as pornography. Everybody has the same definition of annoying, so this bill will never, ever cause any problems.
Mind you, you can still be "annoying", you just can't do it annonymously.
God forbid you actually had a need to say anything on the web without giving your real identity, such as disclosing how upset you are with the incredibly shitty way your government is ruining your country without fear of reprisals. Or you wanted to avoid possible identity theft issues.
Indeed, I find this law to be "annoying" in the extreme and feel we should prosecute G-Dub under it because he's not using his real name: Satan.
Signed into Law by G-Dub last Thursday, a little rider in this bill modifies existant telephone harrasement laws to include the Internet. Now, these codes read:
"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."
Here's the relevant language on "Cyberstalking".
Well, gee, thanks for the specific language, guys! I mean, we all know what annoying is, right? It's as easy to identify as pornography. Everybody has the same definition of annoying, so this bill will never, ever cause any problems.
Mind you, you can still be "annoying", you just can't do it annonymously.
God forbid you actually had a need to say anything on the web without giving your real identity, such as disclosing how upset you are with the incredibly shitty way your government is ruining your country without fear of reprisals. Or you wanted to avoid possible identity theft issues.
Indeed, I find this law to be "annoying" in the extreme and feel we should prosecute G-Dub under it because he's not using his real name: Satan.
posted by QuakerJono | 2:57 PM
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