Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.
If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be five-hundred dollars for a first offense and one-thousand dollars for each offense after that.
What a nut…
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It’s funny, I just posted something today about this kind of thing: clueless lawmakers writing technology legislation. Tim Couch can join Ted Stevens in dabbling in affairs they don’t understand.
ab3fr0m4n - March 10, 2008 at 7:22 pm