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Title: Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
Post by: somanyholes on Mar 11, 2008, 14:40:00
http://www.wtvq.com/content/midatlantic/tvq/video.apx.-content-articles-TVQ-2008-03-05-0011.html

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anonymous

33 anonymous way
anonymous street
anonymous town
etc ..


email address anonymous@mailinator.com

Title: Re: Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
Post by: Rik on Mar 11, 2008, 15:41:35
Shouldn't that be anonymouse@...  ;D
Title: Re: Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
Post by: somanyholes on Mar 11, 2008, 15:45:05
mailinators as good as ;)
Title: Re: Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
Post by: Niall on Mar 11, 2008, 20:10:51
To be honest I think this is a fair point, and a good one.

If you are forced to register your details which would them be confirmed through the ISP (obviously securely), this way anyone posting racism, etc, could easily be tracked down and face the firing squad.

Sadly, there are quite a lot of ways to avoid this already, with proxies and I doubt it'd be long before you'd have ways of submitting false information as you can now.

I'd definitely like to see something like this, but I can't see how they'd do it using current technology and set up.
Title: Re: Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
Post by: madasahatter on Mar 13, 2008, 19:42:13
Quote from: Rik on Mar 11, 2008, 15:41:35
Shouldn't that be anonymouse@...  ;D

:rofl:

don't think Jerry quite got that one.........

Anyways, on topic, I think this is an absolutely ridiculous idea - just another example of big brother....
Title: Re: Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
Post by: Rik on Mar 13, 2008, 19:43:32
Just another example of a politician trying to grab the limelight. :(
Title: Re: Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
Post by: madasahatter on Mar 13, 2008, 19:44:42
Quote from: Rik on Mar 13, 2008, 19:43:32
Just another example of a politician trying to grab the limelight. :(

Yep - trying to justify the taxes it takes to keep him in the style to which he has become accustomed.....