Trolling is now officialy illeagal!

POSTED BY: Storymark
UPDATED: Friday, January 13, 2006 01:31
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HAHAHAHA

the politicians annoy me every day...

anyway.. no way this will stand up in the end.. too vague and too much an infringement on first amendment.. remember dear Poor Richard (aka Ben Franklin)?

Hey it's not a nick it's a psuedomnym

and EVERYTHING I write is a parody...lol


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Chindi (taking off troll costume)

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Originally posted by christhecynic:
I want you to look up the Sedition Act.

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And I want a ham sandwich...Are you insinuating that annoying people is seditious, or that the Sedition Act marked the actual end of free speech? Either way...not so much.

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Originally posted by Causal:
Yes, yes--and incorrect puntuation, as well!

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I'm pretty sure you meant "punctuation". With a "c". Yes?

--- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

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Originally posted by Thanatus:
Wow...this is truly disquieting! And now, a moment of silence in honor of the First Amendment... At least free speech lasted 230 years, not a bad run, I guess!

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Nah. You are still free to say whatever you want. You just have to have the nerve to put your real name behind what you say.

Freedom of speech is still intact. It's the freedom to attack people annonymously that's under fire. And I'm just fine with that.

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

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My Steven Seagal's* looking quite peaky.

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*Cockney rhyming slang for "eagle."

All Londoners have only spoken like this for 42 years. Dick Van Dyke taught us all we know.

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I'm just saying that attempts to inhibit free speech are nothing new. Did you know that during World War I some Americans were arrested (in America) for reading a seditious document, and that document was the American Declaration of Independence?

Now they try less obvious things, use words that are vague enough so you can do whatever you want. Of course they don’t always use the vagary on purpose.

Last I checked, which is not recently, the current definition of pornography could be used to outlaw Democratic press in Republican places, Republican press in Democratic places, and most other press in most places.

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People are people, and they will always be people, I hope, so some odd things will happen. In 1990 a nationwide poll said that almost all Americans supported free speech no matter what. Of those same Americans, in that same poll, about 50% did not believe that communists should be allowed to speak their minds in public.

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My Steven Seagal's* looking quite peaky.

G


*Cockney rhyming slang for "eagle."

Londoners have only spoken like this for 42 years. Dick Van Dyke taught us all we know. Guv.

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Horsepie.
Trolling is not "attacking". Yeah, it can be
annoying, but it's easy to ignore as well.
On NNTP for example, we have kill filters. On
boards like this one, we have moderators and
banning not to mention IP logging. On IRC there're moderators on most boards worth visiting. I didn't
read the article, but if it's legit, this is
indeed another nail in Libertys coffin. We already
have libel laws making it a crime to write
defamatory claims against a private party!

If anyone here truly thinks anonymity on the net
is a threat to peace and order, I call *you* an
enemy of Liberty. Stick and stones, brother -names
can never hurt me. Hell, even Lieutenant Uhura
said (paraphrasing) "We've learned not to fear
words". Too bad we may have to wait until the 25th
century before "The People" grow a nutsack.

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Nah. You are still free to say whatever you want. You just have to have the nerve to put your real name behind what you say.

Freedom of speech is still intact. It's the freedom to attack people annonymously that's under fire. And I'm just fine with that.

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Not entirely fair, mate. So, lack of anonymity may be fine with you, but not everyone is in the same boat. I'm in the consulting business, and work for a great company that allows a lot of leeway. A friend of mine, in the same business, is prohibited and threatened with termination from blogging, or engaging in "controversial discussion" on web boards. He created a pseudonym to keep from losing his job and exercise his rights. I am a bit schizo on this one, I guess...I feel a company has the right to prohibit activities by its employees, but I do NOT think the government has any business prosecuting my friend. How weak has this nation and its denizens become when we need to make annoying or insulting behavior illegal. Arlen Spectre should hang his head in emasculated shame...not trying to be annoying or offensive, though.

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