Illinois Lawmaker Hastily Pulls Anti-Anonymity Bill

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CommanderFrank

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Well that certainly didn’t take long. We reported just this week that an Illinois state Senator had introduced a bill that would require Internet posters to use their real identities online. It looks like the Senator bowed to the criticism of his peers and the bill will be pulled from consideration.

"The entire premise of this bill is fundamentally repugnant to the First Amendment and may actually harm those that it is likely intended to help protect."
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WorldExclusive said:
They'll test us again in a few years.
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Years? Try months, if not weeks. It will have a new name, and some words will change to their synonyms and they'll resubmit it. With the advent of "Find and Replace" functions it makes doing so that much easier today.
 
I'm not surprised that it has been pulled but I do have to agree with blitzkommando, we'll see this back or something much like it in a few weeks or months most likely. If nothing else it'll be piggybacked onto something harmless seeming and it'll take someone spotting it and making sure everyone knows they are once again trying to slip one by us.
 
One of these days , one of these moron senators will actually manage to pass one of these fucking idiotic laws.

Freedom of Speech is under attack on the Internet on a daily basis , it simply can't hold on forever.
 
They probably reminded him that their Grindr accounts would no longer be anonymous.
 
Thank god that got pulled. No need to make it even easier to track someone down and kill them cause of something they said. This stuff happens already, but would escalate if this law was passed.
 
blitzkommando said:
Years? Try months, if not weeks. It will have a new name, and some words will change to their synonyms and they'll resubmit it. With the advent of "Find and Replace" functions it makes doing so that much easier today.
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How does the Children's Online Protection Act sound? Why, you don't have children, do you?
 
Proposals like this are straight out of House of Cards material (new Netflix series starring Kevin Spacey). This guy was probably treated to a few nice lunches and had an expansion to his bedroom paid for by some cocksuckers to present this bill without even understanding what he was doing.
 
Shorehn said:
How does the Children's Online Protection Act sound? Why, you don't have children, do you?
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"We have to protect the children... but they cant post anonymously, we have to identify them online... to save them!"

Brilliant!
 
forcefed said:
"We have to protect the children... but they cant post anonymously, we have to identify them online... to save them!"

Brilliant!
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I can see it now, in order to protect child development, all children must be monitored to their activity acrossed different websites. Further more, some websites which are considered inapporiate will be blocked for them. In order to recognize them easier, all childern will have a child tag assoicated with their acount name on any website*.

*All internet users will be considered a child, unless they can prove their other wise, by providing a valid fourm of ID, linked to their acount to prove their ageness:p.

This system will not track adults in anyway, we must protect the kids!
 
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