XENOPHONZ opened this issue on Jan 12, 2006 ยท 72 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 12 January 2006 at 2:29 PM
Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.
Hmmmmmm......I wonder if SPAM would qualify as an annoyance?
I'm not familiar with that law. But it'll be interesting to see how it shakes out. I'm willing to bet that it'll be found to be unConstitutional, and thrown out.
But as mentioned earlier -- you never know what the courts will do with something like this. Online stalking is a problem.
This bill doesn't sound like Bush's baby. It sounds more like Sen. Arlen Specter's baby. As the article mentions, it was surreptitiously slipped into a must-pass bill by it's sponsors: thus making it semi-proof against political challenge.
Oh, well.....there goes the neighborhood.......