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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Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis has rescinded his $1 million offer to Ashley Alexandra Dupré to participate in the 2008 GGW Spring Break tour and pose (partly clothed) for his new complementary magazine.read the GGW story here
Not because of any moral or legal conundrum, mind you, but because Dupré is already part of GGW history.
We found this Anti Hillary Clinton T-shirt at Cafepress and it pretty much says it all- Most assuringly agrees with the latest post I found by Sam Stein in the Huffington Post which includes this
