Annoy someone online? Think again…

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Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime…

It’s no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.

In other words, it’s OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.

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Posted on January 11, 2006 at by Laptop Guru

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  1. Comment by Dave J. (Scoop0901) posted on
    January 20th, 2007

    I found your site while doing a Google search for anyone mentioning this law, trying to find out if anyone’s used it, complained about it, or anything in the past year.

    It seems to be about as valuable as most things Bush and the corrupt cronies in Congress have done over the past couple of decades. Null.
  2. Comment by Federal online harassment law is a year old already! at Scoop’s Views posted on
    January 20th, 2007

    [...] As SeanRox said in a post about the law that he wrote last year: In other words, it’s OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess. [...]

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