By Declan McCullagh
> Story last modified Mon Jan 09 04:00:00 PST 2006
> 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.
Of course, the flaming idiots in our government may not have realized that anonymous posters can frame innocent people *really* quickly this way.
So can the government.
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