Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal

[Cobra]

:unreal:

http://www.wtvq.com/content/midatlantic/tvq/video.PrintView.-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.

Represntative Couch says enforcing this bill if it became law would be a challenge.

[Osborn F. Enready]

Can't have freedom of thought and speech you know, its damaging... just ask Stalin....

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”
-Joseph Stalin

“Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist.”
-Li Hongzhi, founder of Falun Gong

I think representative Couch should be publicly embarassed for wasting the taxpayers time and money on such foolish nonsense, and his electorate should consider impeachment for a "conflict of values" regarding his role of protecting indiviudal rights.