Semi-OT: Lawmaker wants anonymous posting to be illegal

[Bob Stockler]

Top Post . . .

Sorta correction . . . this Tim Couch is a Republican from the
hills of Eastern Kentucky (no kin to the University of Kentucky
star quarterback and later Cleveland Pro football team draftee
and QB - a Google search for "Tim Couch" tells more about each).

Bob

Bob Stockler wrote (on Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 06:04:45PM -0400):

| Ken Brody wrote (on Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:34:43PM -0400):
| 
| | Several links here:
| | 
| |      http://news.google.com/news?q=tim+couch+anonymous
| | 
| | Representative article:
| |       
| | http://www.wtvq.com/content/midatlantic/tvq/video.apx.-content-articles-TVQ-2008-03-05-0011.html
| | 
| | Basically, Kentucky state legislator Tim Couch (supposedly in an effort to
| | fight online bullying) wants to make it illegal to anonymously post messages
| | on the Internet.  And, if a website owner doesn't verify your real name,
| | e-mail address, and physical address, and allows you to post, he faces a
| | fine of $500 for a first "offense" and $1000 for each additional "offense".
| | (Also, all posts must have your full real name listed along with the post.)
| 
| He's probably a left-wing Socialist, Communist-Leaning, Democrat
| trying to give Kentucky a bad name.  I've never heard of him before.
| 
| However, he is trying to prevent a recent problem - recently a woman
| logged onto an InterNet site and posed as a friend/neighbor of a girl
| and posted "bad things" about her (the poster was the mother of a girl
| who was a friend of the victim).
| 
| The victim girl comitted sucide as a result.
| 
| Bad problem, bad solution to it.  What's your solution ? ? ?
| 
| Bob
| 
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