Okaaay… let’s crack the walnut by using the old sledgehammer, shall we?
Kentucky state representative Tim Couch hopes to cut down on online bullying by passing a bill requiring “anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.”
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.
Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
Let’s just shut down the internets while we’re at it, shall we? That’d probably be about as easy to enforce and as good a solution, IMO. Then the representatives of Kentuckians would all have a lot more free time to come up with useless proposals like this on the taxpayer’s dime.
H/T to Thoughts I’ve Left UnSpoken
Tags: anonymity, Big Brother, data mining, datamining, idiocy, Kentucky, privacy, surveillance, Tim Couch, unenforceable law proposals
