[declan at well.com: [Politech] Lawsuit challenges law targeting Internet "annoyances" [fs]]

[Ashton Vaz]

Seems like a reasonable law.  Why are people scared/upset by this?  
Isn't anyone paying attention to this clause - "and with intent to 
annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person"?  It isn't anonymity or 
anonymizing services that are being targeted, but misuse of anonymizing 
technologies.

Ashton



On 2/10/06, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

>----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com> -----
>
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
>Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:08:59 -0800
>To: politech at politechbot.com
>Subject: [Politech] Lawsuit challenges law targeting Internet "annoyances"
>        [fs]
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>The complaint:
>http://www.politechbot.com/docs/annoy.complaint.020906.pdf
>
>News coverage:
>http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6037439.html
>
>Previous Politech message:
>http://www.politechbot.com/2006/01/12/new-law-targets/
>
>The prohibition in the new law:
>"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."
>
>-Declan
>  
>