[declan at well.com: [Politech] Lawsuit challenges law targeting Internet "annoyances" [fs]]

[circut at youtopia.homelinux.org]

But we all know it will just be a matter of time before the
bill gets 'ammended' to include it. Hopefully this will be
shot down, and the government will leave well enough alone.

-circut

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:45:32AM -0500, Ashton Vaz wrote:
> Seems like a reasonable law.  Why are people scared/upset by this?  
> Isn't anyone paying attention to this clause - "and with intent to 
> annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person"?  It isn't anonymity or 
> anonymizing services that are being targeted, but misuse of anonymizing 
> technologies.
> 
> Ashton
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/10/06, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> 
> >----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com> -----
> >
> >From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
> >Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:08:59 -0800
> >To: politech at politechbot.com
> >Subject: [Politech] Lawsuit challenges law targeting Internet "annoyances"
> >       [fs]
> >User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716)
> >
> >The complaint:
> >http://www.politechbot.com/docs/annoy.complaint.020906.pdf
> >
> >News coverage:
> >http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6037439.html
> >
> >Previous Politech message:
> >http://www.politechbot.com/2006/01/12/new-law-targets/
> >
> >The prohibition in the new law:
> >"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate
> >telecommunications or other types of communications that are
> >transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing
> >his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any
> >person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18
> >or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
> >
> >-Declan
> > 
> >
>