Re: [SAGE] [Fwd: [IRR] Create an e-annoyance, go to jail]

["Strata R. Chalup" <strata@virtual.net>]

Um, this is not about tariffs nor telephones-- this is specifically about web 
and email.  So where is the generalization part?

SRC

Mark R. Lindsey wrote:

> <believes-in-the-system>
> This whole thread/rumor is based on silly generalizations of the  
> telecom and rules that apply it to Internet-based telephony. VoIP is  
> legally considered, for certain purposes, telephony. That doesn't  mean 
> that *everything* IP is no governed by laws and rules that apply  to 
> telephones.
> 
> If this were true, you'd already have to pay federal excise tax on  your 
> ISP access charges. But you don't. Do you think they'd let you  keep 
> money if they thought it could be collected as taxes?
> </believes-in-the-system>
> 
> <synic>
> Of course, lawyers and politicians may turn out to excel at silly  
> generalizations of this sort, and try to do exactly what's dreaded.
> </synic>
> 
> 
> On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Strata R. Chalup wrote:
> 
>>
>> This looks like 10 pounds of trouble in a 5 pound box.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [IRR] Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
>> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:12:43 -0500
>> From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
>> To: undisclosed-recipient: ;
>>
>>
>> Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
>> By Declan McCullagh
>> Story last modified Mon Jan 09 04:00:00 PST 2006
>>
>> Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.
>>
>> It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a
>> prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying
>> e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.
>>
>> In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a
>> blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for
>> small favors, I guess.
>>
>> This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of
>> Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and
>> Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include
>> stiff fines and two years in prison.
>>
>> "The use of the word 'annoy' is particularly problematic," says Marv
>> Johnson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.
>> "What's annoying to one person may not be annoying to someone else."
>>
>> Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit
>> called "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone
>> harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet "without
>> disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy."
>>
>> ...
>>
>> http://news.com.com/2010-1028-6022491.html
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