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NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 06, @02:06PM from the glad-we're-not-in-NJ dept. Privacy The InternetAn anonymous reader writes "The New Jersey legislature is considering a bill that would require operators of public forums to collect users' legal names and addresses, and effectively disallow anonymous speech on online forums.
This raises some serious issues, such as to what extent local and state governments can go in enacting and enforcing Internet legislation." link to proposed bill: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A1500/1327_I1.HTM IP Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ [This of course would have considerable impact on all Internet newsgroups, and opens up the question of liability that out-of-state moderators would have. It also greatly increases the difficulties for whistle-blowers who might wish to publicly air vital concerns without the obvious risks of retribution. Seems like a bad piece of legislation to me. PGN]{This also has implications for children on the Internet. It would make it easier for pedophiles to locate their prey. This is not neccessarily an unintended consequence of the law ... for all we know, NJ pedophiles are among those lobbying in favor of the bill. AWM)
(However, how are moderators to know whether or not participants have provided bogus names and addresses? AWM)
- Al Macintyre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AlMac http://www.ryze.com/go/Al9Mac BPCS/400 Computer Janitor ... see http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/stories/2002/11/08/bpcsDocSources.html
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