The Angst of Anonymity
Kentucky Representative, Tim Couch, introduced a bill last week that would effectively outlaw anonymous posting on any website. While few are quick to say "As goes Kentucky, so goes the nation," and some believe the proposed law violates the 1st Amendment, the "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" lawmaker believes that outlawing anonymous posting would curb online bullying.
Couch's bill requires that your full name, home address and email address be registered with the website. Your full name would then be published along with the post. Stephenie Steitzer of The Courier-Journal (of Louisville, Kentucky) reports: "Under House Bill 775, Web site operators would be responsible for enforcing the policy and could be fined $500 for the first offense and $1,000 for each subsequent offense."
Ed Oswald of Beta News says: "Couch seems to be directing his ire at sites like the increasingly popular JuicyCampus.com, which encourages students to post anonymous, and most times slanderous, comments about others. He says that the bullying problem is significant in his own district in eastern Kentucky. However, at the same time he says the bill could be difficult to enforce if signed into law."
Your thoughts, Anons of Mayor Sam?
Labels: Anonymous Posting Ban, Kentucky, Online Bullying, Tim Couch
Posted by Edward Headington @ 3/11/2008 01:39:00 PM
26 Comments:
Anonymous says: F you Couch!
Stop authoring stupidity and get back to inbreeding the South.
Call me Jim Croce - I Got a Name..
Off main topic but why is it that "inbreeding" is a chide mainly focused on the South by LA's always dubious bloodlines?
And herein lies the true conundrum: does Don Quixote register Santiago, Hiroshi,Drinking with Tony, Prof Irwin Corey,Mustang Sally,Jim,Santa Monica Sally,the Brown Hornet, Marty in Short Pants,etc, etc?
Former Cleveland Brown Tim Couch?
I'm not affraid to give my name or support my beliefs, but, I am afraid of the nuts who dont agree with me. I would never give my address. Thats what "intimidation" means. They could intimidate me a lot easier than I can intimidate then,
How absolutely unnerving to be 310 the little gasbag afraid of "nuts" Then worse, to be the little gasbag having gone to the Los Angeles Police Department about the "nuts" only to hear from those insensitive dreadful terror cops that 310's the one they think who is nuts.
BarfInTheHat,
That was a funny comment AT 2:57, but please "STOP THE XENOPHOBIC VILE VITRIOL" against Don Quixote, Santiago, Hiroshi, Drinking with Tony, Prof Irwin Corey, Mustang Sally, Jim, Santa Monica Sally,the Brown Hornet, Marty in Short Pants, Conchita and etc.
Ai Caramba! Ed your scaring the vitriol out of anonymousa with this kind of post, and she came back as anonymouse/Barf In The Hat to accuse others of posting anonymous and trying to confuse her. Que lastima!
Jiminy Crickets! if she has to post up a handle other than anonymous then her gardener,(the new one not the old one who ran her poodle through the wood chipper),
and her plastic surgeon in Tijuas,(that screwed up and left her with a Shar Pei mug),
and the guys at the car wash (who she never tips), that clean her old Nash Ambassador,
and the housemaid (who she makes clean up all the dog shit under her bed),
not to mention the guys she picks up at Home Depot (who perform all kinds of sundry assorted deviations and handy man work for her),
all these Mexicans will know her true xenophobic phobia phobia's, and may charge her more money now!
Who the hell said life is just a bowl of cherries?
It might as well be menudo!
Don Q.,
As usual you and Tony have the funniest comments on this blog. lol
Keep us laughing with your wit and wordsmith ways.
Don Q.
You right the anonymousa is really whacko, don't let the crazy woman prevent you from commenting on this blog. There are hundreds of us who enjoy reading all you insightful and nuanced comments.
And of course your sense of humor, can't be compared to anyone, maybe you should be added to this blog just like Jack Hoff. Have you and Jack Hoff collaborated on any comedy writing, you two would an unstoppable 1-2 knockout comedy punch.
All this coming from that one girl allegedly committing suicide over stuff said about her by another girl's mom: it's tragic, but then so is a lot of stuff that goes on in high school.
Schools can and do ban their students from positing on sites that bully, but banning all anon. isn't the way to go. However, just the realization that if someone posts a lot of libel and slander, the recipient can go after them in certain circumstances, should curb some of the worst of the postings.
Individual sites can discourage or even remove anything which crosses the line into nastiness about a specific person. When zuma was here, there was so much nastiness and intentional insult directed at pols and even their assistants an families for a long time -- maybe public figures are generally exempt, but saying someone's an idiot because of policies is one thing, when people started going after the Mayor's kids was another. (That vitriol turned out to be all about a hoax, anyway.)
One guy criticized on this blog from ELA even turned up at City Hall to say he'd kick butt over his wife's honor being dragged through the mud here. That was too much too, he's just some average Joe.
No more split-personality Don Cholo though, how do we do that? I know, just censor them all on this blog.
Don Q.
You keep us in stiches.It's funny here and funnier when anonymousa vitriolic bloggins goes to the majority of Hispanics jury.
Is there any chance Tim Couch once resided near Sacramento? This sounds like something Levine would introduce.
Is that Couch in the cartoon or anonymousa playing web maven?
Years ago I once posted in my own name. I thought as long as I am honest, polite, cordial, don't break any laws, what do I have to fear. I have nothing to hide, am not a criminal, am an upstanding citizen. I learned the hard way. I had plenty to fear.
People who just don't agree with you, are jealous, nasty losers, petty, just plain mean will attack you, anonymously. They will threaten to kill you, your family. They'll send junk mail to your house, spam you to death, leave nasty calls, put your name on sexchat websites, file false reports against you to the government and that's just for starters.
We need to be able to post anonymously so we can't be targeted. That's why I'm anonymous. I'm not anonymous because I want to libel someone or threaten to kill someone. I just don't want to be libeled or threatened. Anonymous speech is protected speech. The courts have already ruled on this issue.
dq,
got your hard hat? gasbag 626 is downpouring her shitstorm.
Who is this wacko Don Q.? We now have to see his non-stop comment.
Don Q. and his anony-mousa enemy are boring, annoying and just plain stupid.
Bring back comment moderation to muzzle the idiots.
Is that Couch in the cartoon or anonymousa playing web maven?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Example of a stupid comment by Don Quackers, talking to his invisible enemy, anonymousa
Mayor Sam, get rid of this boring loser.
marty with the short pants said...
Don Q. and Jack Hoff should collaborate on comedy writing.
They could do a game show. Guess the age of anonymousa by how many animals she killed and burried in her yard.
Interesting that it's anonymous posters here who elegantly and repeatedly live down to the low standards that raised Couch's concern in the first place. He may not ever get the bill through, but the motivation behind it shows up here over and over again every day.
Ed, your scaring anonymousa/Shar Pei face with this post. Shes spinning like a twister.
Caption
Anonymousa your nuts grew back.
Barf in the hat 2:57, wax's poetic,
(after he wax's his handlebar mustache and lights his Meerschaum Pipe), but alas he put his conundrum over his head.
"And herein lies the true conundrum:"
It figures the old undereducated wanna be cholo would confuse "conundrum" with a rubber. But please everyone, ignore his inadequacies and just like him. He needs it so badly.. And if you have the chance put in a good word for open borders, it's one of his focus issues. When all the Southwest is brown and bankrupt Don Quixote will be in his element..
its probably nutty sicko mary cummins fake posting like the victim she isnt at 6:26.
3/11/08 3:09pm,
Thought the same thing too, but it isn't. He reps District 90 in KY legislature.
When I googled the name, I found the guy's website after many links to the QB Tim Couch's lame comeback attempt(s).
Too bad they're not the same guy. He could've followed the Heath Shuler playbook:
**overrated SEC quarterback
**high draftpick
**major NFL bust
**future congressman
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