So Looking around to see how other people are pissing people off and found a few interesting places for you to visit if you haven't already-
Today's topic is centered on blocking our First Amendment: Freedom of Speech
According to c|net- Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
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.
Read the entire ugly story here
teaser: "Who decides what's annoying? That's the ultimate question," Fein said. He added: "If you send an annoying message via the United States Post Office, do you have to reveal your identity?"
More from c|net: At the uneasy intersection of bloggers and the law
There is no better way to get a blogger talking than by telling him what he cannot publish--though you might forgive a government prosecutor for thinking otherwise.A grand-jury subpoena sent by prosecutors in the Bronx earlier this year sought information to help identify people blogging anonymously on a Web site about New York politics called Room 8.
The subpoena carried a warning in capital letters that disclosing its very existence "could impede the investigation being conducted and thereby interfere with law enforcement"--implying that if the bloggers blabbed, they could be prosecuted.
teaser: "Armed with that knowledge, a blogger could fight the subpoena in court. Software also exists that is intended to make it difficult to identify those who want to be anonymous online."
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