Anonymous Annoyance now a Federal Crime.
On January 5th, President Bush signed into law language amending the existing telephone harassment law.
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The new provision is tucked away in a law to prevent violence to women.
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"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."I've contended for years that anonymous posts would be the death of useful usenet, but this law is .. is .. annoying ! ;-)
What's next?
... Marc Marc_F_Hult
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