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New Jersey Bill: No Anonymous Posting

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Mon, 03/06/2006 - 10:10pm.

New Jersey State Legislature:

This bill would require an operator of any interactive computer service or an Internet service provider to establish, maintain and enforce a policy requiring an information content provider who posts messages on a public forum website either to be identified by legal name and address or to register a legal name and address with the operator or provider prior to posting messages on a public forum website.

This will never stick. How c

Submitted by Rick on Mon, 03/06/2006 - 10:25pm.

This will never stick. How could it possibly be enforced?

I don't know. Interesting th

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Mon, 03/06/2006 - 10:27pm.

I don't know. Interesting they're even moving for it, though.

TFI, the very brave OlyCop wa

Submitted by stevenl on Tue, 03/07/2006 - 12:30am.

TFI, the very brave OlyCop was anonymous, but he is the only OlyBlogger who seems to have a legitimate reason for hiding behind a handle as he was in a sort of whistleblower situation. If there are others in the same predicament, they have not defined themselves. I don't care if being anonymous is the norm in other places. OlyBlog is about being different and open. This is not a typical blog.

As someone who has a long history of suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for merely stating my opinion, I must say that attaching your real name to an online point of view is better than using a mask. Openess is strength. To express an opinion without revealing the source is like reading graffiti. Sure, it might be clever. But where did it come from? The political and social risk you take is part of the spice of life. TFI, jump in.

As a fellow libertarian, which I think you are at heart, you can appreciate the credo of personal responsibility. That includes a certain element of uncertainty when you go out on a limb and state an opinion. I find it interesting that the people who are willing to use their own names in OlyBlog come from the Left and those who come from the Right do not. Although I eschew the Left/Right dichotomy, I must admit it does appear the Right wing appears hypocritical in not accepting any responsibility for their opinions by attributing their real names. Or is there something I am missing?

Let me think about this one a

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Tue, 03/07/2006 - 5:02pm.

Let me think about this one and get back to you.

Ridiculous, I say - that they

Submitted by DrewHendricks on Fri, 03/10/2006 - 10:07am.

Ridiculous, I say - that they would think that their reach extends so far, given the First Amendment right to associate with your peers for a redress of grievances "shall not be infringed," and the obvious effects of the proposed rule to stifle that important principle.

That said, have these idiots never heard of the idea of ISPs moving their webservers out of state, leaving the Garden State with nought but a bunch of routers? The law itself if the height of techno-phobic ignorance, if they think that you can regulate online content BY STATE... HA! More likely this effort will be made moot by the implementation of IPv6.

In related news, my boss found out yesterday that you have to get GPS in your phone nowadays. That's what they told him, anyway... Maybe just a sales dude looking at commission, but if its true I'll be fixing up my old one now that it is on the blink. That or a tinfoil hat, right?

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