5-23-2012
http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-call-end-internet-anonymity-144224952.html
Lawmakers Call for an End to Internet Anonymity
Lawmakers in New York State think the root of all Internet evil lies in the anonymous nature by which comments get posted on news websites and social media.
Their solution? They've introduced Internet anonymity legislation that would make New York-based website owners delete any anonymous posts that other Internet users label as cyberbullying.
Should the bills pass, any Internet user could call up a toll-free number that websites would be required to set up to handle such grievances. Anonymous web users would then have but a single recourse to save their posts if such a compliant is lodged against them: unmask completely by revealing their name and going through an identification process.
Should they refuse, the post must be deleted within 48 hours.
"A web site administrator, upon request, shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name and home address are accurate," reads the draft legislation, identical versions of which have been introduces in both chambers of New York's legislature.
O'Mara has not spoken to any website hosts about the legislation, nor does he consider the idea a violation of the First Amendment.
"I'll be taking comments from web hosts and on the First Amendment into consideration," said O'Mara. "By no means is this an attempt to infringe upon the First Amendment. I don't think hosts of websites want to be in a position of fostering false or unsubstantiated information, and I want to work with all interests on the bill."
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5-24-2012
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/24/2212223/fbi-quietly-forms-secretive-net-surveillance-unit?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29
FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit
"CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.
'The big question for me is why there isn't more transparency about what's going on?' asks Jennifer Lynch, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group in San Francisco. 'We should know more about the program and what the FBI is doing. Which carriers they're working with — which carriers they're having problems with. They're doing the best they can to avoid being transparent.'"
http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-call-end-internet-anonymity-144224952.html
Lawmakers Call for an End to Internet Anonymity
Lawmakers in New York State think the root of all Internet evil lies in the anonymous nature by which comments get posted on news websites and social media.
Their solution? They've introduced Internet anonymity legislation that would make New York-based website owners delete any anonymous posts that other Internet users label as cyberbullying.
Should the bills pass, any Internet user could call up a toll-free number that websites would be required to set up to handle such grievances. Anonymous web users would then have but a single recourse to save their posts if such a compliant is lodged against them: unmask completely by revealing their name and going through an identification process.
Should they refuse, the post must be deleted within 48 hours.
"A web site administrator, upon request, shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name and home address are accurate," reads the draft legislation, identical versions of which have been introduces in both chambers of New York's legislature.
O'Mara has not spoken to any website hosts about the legislation, nor does he consider the idea a violation of the First Amendment.
"I'll be taking comments from web hosts and on the First Amendment into consideration," said O'Mara. "By no means is this an attempt to infringe upon the First Amendment. I don't think hosts of websites want to be in a position of fostering false or unsubstantiated information, and I want to work with all interests on the bill."
Wait, there's more:
5-24-2012
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/24/2212223/fbi-quietly-forms-secretive-net-surveillance-unit?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29
FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit
"CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.
'The big question for me is why there isn't more transparency about what's going on?' asks Jennifer Lynch, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group in San Francisco. 'We should know more about the program and what the FBI is doing. Which carriers they're working with — which carriers they're having problems with. They're doing the best they can to avoid being transparent.'"
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That's rich. Silly, silly liberals... thinking that laws like this would succeed in stopping something.
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