http://www.wtvq.com/content/midatlantic/tvq/video.apx.-content-articles-TVQ-2008-03-05-0011.html
"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.
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.
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.
Representative Couch says enforcing this bill if it became law would be a challenge."
- ya think?
An apropos comic:
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The point of that story is that <suspend belief> if this bill ever gets enacted </suspend belief>
then according to my membership resistration with VideoSift, my name will be Mr. Cornelieus Happypants and I will live at 69 Boner Ln.
Internet bullying? Oh come on and grow up, online participation is chosen not enforced. Walk away, and go back to radio then or use NetNanny.
like me and Mycroftto patrol websiteslike this onewhere people might exercise their "rights" of free speech a little too often. Thenwethey can just scan IPs and break down some doors.