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Billkamm
Posting Yak Master
124 Posts |
 Posted - 2006-03-07 : 12:12:58
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| What do you think of this proposed NJ law to making anonymous posting on forums illegal:http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A1500/1327_I1.HTM |
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blindman
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2365 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-07 : 13:37:16
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| Sounds like a typical case of legislative ignorance to me. |
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Billkamm
Posting Yak Master
124 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-07 : 14:00:23
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| I bet the representative sponsoring that bill had derogratory things said about him in online forums and is bitter about it. |
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twhelan1
Yak Posting Veteran
71 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-07 : 14:10:52
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| Two things... this would be very difficult to police and enforce considering (whether they like it or not) New Jersey doesn't own the Internet. New Jersey can't really tell a business based in Illinois to disallow anonymous postings because it offends some NJ legislator. It kind of gets into the realm of what China has done with restricting what sites are accessible from within their boundaries. The US government ran into similar issues with regards to pornography legislation.Second, I think this would most likely be ruled unconstitutional as it likely violates the First Ammendment. Though that's speculation since I'm too lazy to read the whole thing and since the makeup of the courts has changed recently.~Travis |
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eyechart
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
3575 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-07 : 14:19:06
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| why are our politicians wasting their time (and our money) on idiotic proposals like this? |
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)
7020 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-07 : 14:49:06
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Originally posted by eyechart
why are our politicians wasting their time (and our money) on idiotic proposals like this?
Sounds like a certain Peter J. Biondi has been getting blasted by postings from unhappy constituents on anonymous forums.I, for one, welcome our new Garden State Internet Overlords.CODO ERGO SUM |
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jhermiz
3564 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-07 : 15:20:06
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How is it anonymous if the IP is recorded though ?
Keeping the web experience alive -- [url]http://www.web-impulse.com[/url]RS Blog -- [url]http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jhermiz[/url] |
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Billkamm
Posting Yak Master
124 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-07 : 15:34:26
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| jhermiz: ISPs are not required to reveal indentity. In addition you can connect through a proxy before posting on the forums, when they try and trace the IP back to you they might get hung up in say... China?I'm not completely sure how NJ is going to enforce this unless the poster and the website are both in NJ |
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twhelan1
Yak Posting Veteran
71 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-07 : 15:36:53
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All your forums are belong to New Jersey  ~Travis |
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jhermiz
3564 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-07 : 16:54:44
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off topic, why cant you pump your own gas in jersey ?
Keeping the web experience alive -- [url]http://www.web-impulse.com[/url]RS Blog -- [url]http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jhermiz[/url] |
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Billkamm
Posting Yak Master
124 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-07 : 17:06:01
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| jhermiz: Because it is New Jersey... that is all I need to know for it to make sense |
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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2052 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-08 : 04:31:11
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why are our politicians wasting their time (and our money) on idiotic proposals like this?
It's what they do best. That's a universal truth (and demonstrably not libelous)Anon  |
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RickD
Slow But Sure Yak Herding Master
3608 Posts |
Posted - 2006-03-08 : 07:40:10
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Originally posted by jhermiz
off topic, why cant you pump your own gas in jersey ?
Keeping the web experience alive -- [url]http://www.web-impulse.com[/url]RS Blog -- [url]http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jhermiz[/url]
You can, i've been to the channel islands and done this myself..  |
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Kristen
Test
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Posted - 2006-03-08 : 08:45:51
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| Were you on a soap box then? Kristen |
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Anonymous Posts On Forums Illegal?