Got me dead to rights.Hook686 said:I find this post personally annoying Biker ... who the heck are you really ?
Great. Just great. Now wer'e all criminals - just what "The Government" wants."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."
Flyboy said:"Not more than two years." Gee, that sounds an awful lot like a crime punishable by more than one year in prison.
Looks like THR is going to fall apart, now that all the gunnies are going to be gun-less.
It's possible, but do you really want to be the test case?odysseus said:....
Let me ask anyone out there: Doesn't the 1st Amendment protect this kind of speech? I know all speech is not protected, but I am sure speech doesn't have to authenticated, and impeading speech for this abridges free speech?
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To grease the rails for this idea, Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and the section's other sponsors slipped it into an unrelated, must-pass bill to fund the Department of Justice. The plan: to make it politically infeasible for politicians to oppose the measure.
You jest, but the cynic in me suggests that .gov didn't forget anything.You know, I wonder what John Payne, and Ben Franklin would say. They both used pen names to write things that annoyed people. I wonder how the .gov could forget that.
That must be a pseudonym.Clinton Fein, a San Francisco resident
Kodiaz said:It isn't stupid it's a total violation of our 1st amendment rights. This is supposed to happen in Cuba or China not the USA.