-------- Original Message -------- Subject: NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:22:15 -0500 (EST) From: Lynn <lynn@ecgincc.com> To: dave@farber.net http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/03/06/1736234.shtml NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 06, @02:06PM from the glad-we're-not-in-nj dept. Privacy The Internet An anonymous reader writes "The New Jersey legislature is considering a bill that would require operators of public forums to collect users' legal names and addresses, and effectively disallow anonymous speech on online forums. This raises some serious issues, such as to what extent local and state governments can go in enacting and enforcing Internet legislation." link to proposed bill: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A1500/1327_I1.HTM ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]