Would this be the end of Forums as we know them

[min0 lee]

Would you still post if your real name was used? It may not happen but imagine if it did..


Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal

Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.
If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be five-hundred dollars for a first offense and one-thousand dollars for each offense after that.
Representative Couch says he filed the bill in hopes of cutting down on online bullying. He says that has especially been a problem in his Eastern Kentucky district.
Action News 36 asked people what they thought about the bill.
Some said they felt it was a violation of First Amendment rights. Others say it is a good tool toward eliminating online harassment.
Represntative Couch says enforcing this bill if it became law would be a challenge

 

[KelJu]

Lol, some 8 year-old kid talked shit to him in a chatroom, so he got pissed and introduced legislation. I bet 20:1 odds that is what happened.

 

[DOMS]

Not gonna happen.

Do they have computer in Kentucky now?

 

[Gazhole]

Yeah, great idea - lets put up real names and addresses on the internet for anybody to abuse.

What are the odds that he's getting "the blowjob" from a spam company for trying for something like this.

 

[min0 lee]

Not gonna happen.

Do they have computer in Kentucky now?

 

[iMan323]

Damn, I wouldn't even touch a computer if it wasn't anonymous...

 

[KentDog]

Not gonna happen.

I agree.

I wonder how they would enforce this, as well as how it would affect forum owners if it were to pass. It seems the costs could deter owners from continuing to operate their forums.

 

[danzik17]

They couldn't enforce it. Not without serious structural changes to how the internet is built and maintained, and other countries will just go "fuck you" if we try to change that.

 

[PappaD]

Yeah let's help all the sexual preditors by giving names and addys for kids in chatrooms and forums!!!

 

[Arnold]

how in the world could it ever be enforced?

what an idiot.

 

[bigss75]

I think he's talking mainly abut 4chan and all the chan sites either way thats not happening anytime soon

 

[Arnold]

it's about as likely to happen as censoring porn on the internet!

 

[danzik17]

This is why we need competent people running the country. Not necessarily tech competent, just competent in general.

 

[maniclion]

Is he going to post guards in each one of the tubes?

By the way my name is Alfred Periwinkle III nice to meet ya'll

 

[Triple Threat]

You'll see a lot of John Does posting on the internet. Or maybe min0 lees.

 

[tucker01]

I really am Iain

 

[KelJu]

This is why we need competent people running the country. Not necessarily tech competent, just competent in general.

A competent person doesn't have to know everything. However, a competent person should seek the advice of people that do know a lot about the decision at hand and can give good advice. The guy doesn't know shit about the internet or computer networking infrastructures, and didn't seek the advice of someone that did know.

It would cost billions, maybe trillions to implement what he suggest, and there would still always be ways around it for people who understand how the technology works.

 

[Witchblade]

Send that ancient beast from Kentucky back to the Dark Ages where it came from.

 

[NeilPearson]

I would. Oh wait a sec... I do

I don't care who knows it's me.