Obnoxious & Inappropriate - Dale Sorenson's Blog

These are my inner-most thoughts, mostly about comedy and technology, but also occasionally other non-sequitur, tangential rants. Well OK, maybe these aren't my INNER-most thoughts. Those are mostly about dancers and Swedes, and would probably get me locked up if they ever became public ... but some hopefully interesting thoughts, anyways.

1/27/2006

I'm In Serious Trouble



It is now illegal to be annoying on the Internet. No shit. Bush just signed a law making it a crime with serious penalties to annoy someone anonymously on the Internet. You can now go to jail for being annoying.

If this absurd bit of blatantly unconstitutional crap doesn't finally disprove the ridiculous Republican claim of being the party of small government, nothing will.

How many millions of our tax dollars will be spent before this nonsense is overturned? And what speech will be chilled along the way?

Maybe the Beastie Boys will come out with a sequel song, Fight for Your Right to Be Annoying.

Or maybe not.

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posted by Dale Sorenson @ 9:26 AM 1 comments

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At 11:26 PM, Anonymous Joe said...

This was thoroughly debunked a few weeks ago. The law was just an extension of existing (pre-Bush) telephone harrassment legislation to include email etc. I'm too lazy to find sources, but no one is going to lock you up for being a jerk.

Not saying you're a jerk or anything. Really.

 

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