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2008-03-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal

~~Mentally challenged~~ Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.
Did some anonymous meanie say make you cry, Tim?
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
How 'bout if I borrow yours, Tim?
Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.
Unless you're doing something illegal, that is.
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.
Har har har! Another colossal waste of time and energy courtesy of the US House!
Representative Couch says he filed the bill in hopes of cutting down on online bullying. He says that has especially been a problem in his Eastern Kentucky district.
Ah, he's doing it for the children.
Action News 36 asked people what they thought about the bill.

Some said they felt it was a violation of First Amendment rights. Others say it is a good tool toward eliminating online harassment.
If you don't like gettin harassed, go elsewhere or change your nym and/or stop acting stoopid. Stop trying to set the standards according to the lowest common denominator, Tim. How socialist. You end up going backwards every time.
Representative Couch says enforcing this bill if it became law would be a challenge.
I'd call this the understatement of the week.

Posted by gorb 2008-03-11 04:49|| || Front Page|| [23 views ] Top

#1 That's what you guys get for picking on me every time I say something stupid here. Waa waa waa!!!

Posted by Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305) 2008-03-11 14:16|| 2008-03-11 14:16|| Front Page Top

#2 How about banning reporters from using anonymous sources?

Posted by DoDo 2008-03-11 14:28|| 2008-03-11 14:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, Tim Couch. Bite me!

Posted by Anonymous Guy 2008-03-11 14:34|| 2008-03-11 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Didn't Senator Poopypants (Amphibian-PA) float this out there a couple years ago?

And didn't Tim Couch suck donkey nads as a quarterback?

Posted by Guillibaldo Chusotle9664 2008-03-11 16:11|| 2008-03-11 16:11|| Front Page Top

#5 he's tired of all the SofaKing jokes...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-11 16:58|| 2008-03-11 16:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Couch loves big intrusive government; voters hate big intrusive government. Hope you like your new career.

Posted by Pancho Phaling1080 2008-03-11 17:10|| 2008-03-11 17:10|| Front Page Top

#7 You got it wrong, Rantbourgeosie. I am from the government and I am here to help you. If you got nothin' to hide, you got nothin' to be afraid of!

If Jihadis come to your house because you post on Rantburg, well just call the cops. That's what they're there for. If you didn't post hate speech in the first place that wouldn't be necessary anyway. Right?

If you denounce a yokel politician and your water gets cut off or your yard catches fire, that, too, can be used as a learning experience: This kind of stuff is for professionals only, don't try it at home, leave it to the trained and licensed media.

Posted by Tim Couch 2008-03-11 18:12|| 2008-03-11 18:12|| Front Page Top

#8 What an asshole!!

Posted by Throlumble Gonque7017 2008-03-11 19:28|| 2008-03-11 19:28|| Front Page Top

#9 ...when they pry my cold dead hands from the keyboard and mouse.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-03-11 19:54|| 2008-03-11 19:54|| Front Page Top

#10 I'll support it - if it's limited to posters from Toronto.

Posted by Pappy 2008-03-11 21:35|| 2008-03-11 21:35|| Front Page Top

#11 You don't really think it would pass...do you...???

Posted by crazyhorse">crazyhorse 2008-03-11 22:19|| 2008-03-11 22:19|| Front Page Top

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