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Topic: Its now illegal to be annoying on the Net

Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Subject: Its now illegal to be annoying on the Net
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 05:59

http://news.com.com/FAQ+The+new+annoy+law+explained/2100-1028_3-6025396.html?tag=nefd.top - http://news.com.com/FAQ+The+new+annoy+law+explained/2100-102 8_3-6025396.html?tag=nefd.top

Ah great i have waited for a law like this for too long

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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 06:05

Great now I can pack it in

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Posted By: Rising Force
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 06:06

No more trolling?

Why the hell is it taking so long for this law to be applied in actual reality too?

Posted By: Rising Force
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 06:09

If I only lived outside of the US... Then I could troll boards from outside of the US and not go to jail... Who hasn't trolled a board, right?

Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 06:14

Bilden “http://www.democracymatters.org/Images/Web/ResourceCenter/NewFolder/FreeSpeechCartoon_600.gif” kan inte visas, då den innehåller fel.

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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 06:51

"Q: Some people, including law professor Orin Kerr, http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvolokh.com%2Farchives%2Farchive_2006_01_08-2006_01_14.shtml%231136873535&siteId=3&oId=2100-1028-6025396&ontId=1023&lop=nl.ex - say the existence of the First Amendment means we shouldn't worry.

Kerr says that "if speech is protected by the First Amendment, the statute is unconstitutional as applied and the indictment must be dismissed... prosecutors know that they can't bring a prosecution unless doing so would comply with the Supreme Court's First Amendment cases."

That's correct as far as it goes. But it's not the whole story, because it amounts to trusting what lawyers call prosecutorial discretion.

The U.S. Justice Department made the same argument in its unsuccessful defense of the Communications Decency Act. Prosecutors claimed that the CDA was constitutional because the Justice Department would never apply it in an unconstitutional manner.

Judge Dolores Sloviter http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.cddc.vt.edu%2Fwww.eff.org%2Fpub%2FCensorship%2FInternet_censorship_bills%2FHTML%2F960612_aclu_v_reno_decision.html&siteId=3&oId=2100-1028-6025396&ontId=1023&lop=nl.ex - rejected that argument , writing: "The government makes yet another argument that troubles me. It suggests that the concerns expressed by the plaintiffs and the questions posed by the court reflect an exaggerated supposition of how it would apply the law, and that we should, in effect, trust the Department of Justice to limit the CDA's application in a reasonable fashion that would avoid prosecution for placing on the Internet works of serious literary or artistic merit. That would require a broad trust indeed from a generation of judges not far removed from the attacks on James Joyce's Ulysses as obscene." "

(emphasis added)

The quote refers to the CDA bill and not this one, but the assertion still applies -- here we have yet another example of an agent of our government telling us not to trust them! This has happened before with congressmen like the late Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, the retired Dick Armey, and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, who have repeatedly warned that bills like the 'patriot act', 'p II', and bills like this one serve up our hard-fought rights on a silver platter to civil 'servants' who don't necessarily have the capacity (or the motivation) to act in ways that would protect our best interests. How much clearer does this message have to be before citizens wake up and realize we are allowing our civil liberties to be taken away at an alarming rate? 21st century sedition acts can't be far behind. I swear, next time I hear an American say that they don't have a problem with the government doing things to curb our civil liberties because they trust the government to act 'in our best interests' and that these things are necessary to 'protect us', I'm going to punch them in the nose and steal their wallet and their wife -- so I can manage their valuables for them 'in their best interests'.

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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 07:00

ahhh, at last. But i think this wont stop the A holes!

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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 10:18

I guess i'm following VC out of the door...

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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 13:15

NutterAlert wrote:

I guess i'm following VC out of the door...

and me, Nutter...I guess I'll be handing my Collab's badge in at the door...

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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 16:11

I guess it's over for me and Flossy too then....

But as an epitaph:

ULK ULK ULK

Eh???

GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!

SLEEP IS OVERRATED!!!!!!!!!!

OINK URK URK!!!

Yeah

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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 16:15

^ Bill Gates is flying to Norway right now with a loaded rifle... watch out.

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Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 18:02

So does this mean Tony R will finally have some peace and quiet?

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"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls."

Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 18:19

It means I can set up a fines system:

$100 per Ulk,cash in advance.............

$1000 in advance for Velvetclown to post anything...

$5000 for AtLossForWords to ask me a question

Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 18:20

isn't that extortion?

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"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls."

Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 18:31

AtLossForWords wrote:

isn't that extortion?

That'll be $5000 before I answer!

See post above yours...

Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 18:56

Yes,Tony,I will pay $5000 and would just like to say what an all-round good guy you are........

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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 19:16

How annoying is that?

Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 19:21

Here ya go Tony :

what kinda pic shall I post now

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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 21:36

1000 Dollars

= 10 ULKS:

ulk ulk ulk ulk ulk ulk ulk ulk ulk ulk

Enjoy!

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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 00:41

Like the great Al Pacino said in "Angels In America": f**k legal!

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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 08:21

Velvetclown wrote:

Here ya go Tony :

what kinda pic shall I post now

VC..I'll see you, and raise to 1 million (turkish lira) . Beat that.

I can now post my famous tastefully-nude pictures of Tony R posing for art students to supplement his meagure P.A. admin salary

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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 08:55

NutterAlert wrote:

I can now post my famous tastefully-nude pictures of Tony R posing for art students to supplement his meagure P.A. admin salary

Salary? what salary?

no-one told me about one of those...

Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 09:17

fandango wrote:

NutterAlert wrote:

I can now post my famous tastefully-nude pictures of Tony R posing for art students to supplement his meagure P.A. admin salary

Salary? what salary?

no-one told me about one of those...

I quite like a salary, especially in a dip.

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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 09:22

Snow Dog wrote:

I quite like a salary, especially in a dip.

Try celery with some Peri-Peri sauce...

...very chili indeed

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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 10:09

VC..I'll see you, and raise to 1 million (turkish lira)

. Beat that.

HA !! NO PROBLEM

Bilden “http://www.moneycops.com/images/money-cops-on-top-of-world3.jpg” kan inte visas, då den innehåller fel.

I´ll raise ya.All the money in the world.

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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 10:10

Plus 50 cent

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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 10:13

I don´t care how tasteful those pictures of Tony are

Please just don´t post them

My old heart can´t take such a SHOCK

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Posted By: BitchBrew
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 11:42

exersice will make your health better!

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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 12:28

I guess this ruling means shouldn't post things like this...

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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 13:25

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Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 13:50

That's my response to money, beat that.

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"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls."

Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 14:20

CUMMUNIST

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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 14:21

Bilden “http://www.graffiti.org/clown/clown_venice.jpg” kan inte visas, då den innehåller fel.

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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 15 2006 at 11:13

I repeat myself when under stress..

How much does THAT cost, Tony??

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