Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

[jlee]

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: CadetLee

without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications..

There's my loophole.. "I didn't intend to!"

And what makes it impossible to enforce.

Kind of hard to prove intent

:thumbsup:

 

[azoomee]

You know, this whole website/forum could be considered annoying to someone -- what if someone visited the forum and got annoyed by people's posts....everyone has a pseudonym.

I don't get it....

 

[EKKC]

i find this site annoying. im suing anand for half his $$$!!!

me FTW!!!

j/k

 

[BigB10293]

I'm reporting all of you to the FBI. This thread annoys the heck out of me.

 

[eakers]

they need to do somethign like this in canada.

 

[Cooler]

Now i will Legally change my name to Cooler.

 

[ElFenix]

this should be stickied in p&n

 

[jfall]

I miss the early 90's internet

 

[DaShen]

Hahahahaha!!!! :thumbsup:

what a moron

***EDIT***
Oh crap, Am I going to jail now

 

[DaShen]

I am placing all of you under citizens arrest.

Don't try to leave the country, you're already screwed.

 

[silverpig]

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.

The tactic worked. The bill cleared the House of Representatives by voice vote, and the Senate unanimously approved it Dec. 16.

Sounds familiar to me...

SPEAKER
Then it is unanimous, we are going to approve the bill to evacuate the town of Springfield in the great state of--

CONGRESSMAN
Wait a second, I want to tack on a rider to that bill - $30 million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts.

SPEAKER
All in favor of the amended Springfield-slash-pervert bill?

FLOOR
Boo!

SPEAKER
Bill defeated.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: CadetLee

without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications..

There's my loophole.. "I didn't intend to!"

And what makes it impossible to enforce.

Kind of hard to prove intent

It's done all the time in court, murder vs. manslaughter.

 

[Injury]

They will enforce this just like they enforce spam laws and crackdown on spyware and malware.

Might as well just leave this bill out for toilet paper.

 

[Anubis]

wait so not the mods have to tell us who they are

w00t

 

[rhino56]

i want to know who everyone is if your gonna annoy me. lol

 

[hypn0tik]

Originally posted by: C6FT7
There's a company out in CA that makes video chips and system chipsets that the Bush administration has hired to nForce the rules.

*Rimshot*

 

[LordMorpheus]

Welp, I'm off to mexico, who needs a ride?

 

[DAGTA]

Gotta love that a group of people with the average computer literacy less than a 7 year old are writing and passing bills pertaining to computer use.

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
Welp, I'm off to mexico, who needs a ride?

mehico? YGPM!

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
Welp, I'm off to canada, who needs a ride?

fixed.

 

[AMDZen]

By simply posting this news article, you have annoyed me extremely. I'm calling the police.

This rates as the all time dumbest law I've seen in my life time.

 

[Phoenix86]

So what does this mean for online gaming and all the idiots there?

 

[JS80]

How is this any different than prank calls being illegal?

 

[DAGTA]

I think a friend of mine hit the bulls-eye with this comment:

"it all goes back to the "feeling" someone has... like in sexual
harassment. If you feel harassed, you are. If you feel annoyed,
someone is doing it to you.

No personal responsibility at all, but a logical consequence of where
we have been heading for the last 40 years."

 

[Arkitech]

hmm lets see, thousands of displaced americans from hurricanes, us troops are dying overseas, white house personnel endangering fbi operatives, george bush passes a bill against neffing

wow