Internet Flaming May Become Illegal

[neiroatopelcc]

Should that bill get passed, would it only affect americans? or anyone using or passing thru internet in america?
Cause I might be in violation to that if they'd look at my facebook comments .... the internet can't distinquish between irony or seriously meant comments. Only those who know the author can reliably do so.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]Thor[/nom]Why Politician are so idiots?Why Politician want nobody talk,saying lie, except themself?They are already law against criminal.Why want more to hide all words?A say, dictionary will have only 100 words.All other will be censored.Politician are just shit ![/citation]
Are you demonhorde665 ? or did you merely learn to type the same place he did?

 

[hillarymakesmecry]

Sounds like censorship to me...

 

[AdamB5000]

[citation][nom][/nom]"In the rare event that a cyberbullying incident rises to a level warranting criminal intervention, we already have existing laws which can be utilized (stalking, criminal harassment, felonious assault, etc.)."[/citation]

That says it all. We already have laws like this. I think this would be a small step toward regulating the internet.

 

[hairycat101]

[citation][nom]MDillenbeck[/nom]ACID TEST TIME!First test:Is it a felony to say these flames in real life to a person? Also, is it a felony to bully someone? If you answer yes, then this is a reasonable law.Second test😀o laws already exist that cover these acts? If no, then this is a needed law.My understanding is we already have a set of laws that cover making threats against another person, both verbally and written, and so this law is redundant. Additionally, it sounds like they wish to make the law much more stern than existing laws, and thus it is unreasonable.[/citation]

last line. Unreasonable. This is why this law is comming from the left. Because they lack reason.

 

[Guest]

This law won't be passed. Plain and simple.
since there are many ways to not run into the situation of being flamed, they'd say just to do one of those options.

 

[bustapr]

This could actually be a good thing. Truly acts of racism and harrasment should be judged in a court.

 

[bustapr]

whats flaming?

 

[Guest]

Bustapr, thing is, it's the net. A place where it's basically hard to prove what was said by who. IP's can be changed too, to make it harder. Law then is invalid if they cannot catch the people who break it.

 

[Guest]

Flmaing is attacking someone over the net. With threats and being rude.

 

[Guest]

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[turboflame]

[citation][nom]bustapr[/nom]This could actually be a good thing. Truly acts of racism and harrasment should be judged in a court.[/citation]

This comment offended me, as soon as this law gets passed I'm pressing charges.

 

[Guest]

How did it offend you? The person said being racist should make you be taken to court.

 

[bustapr]

That was just, plain stupid. Are you going to press charges for that too?

 

[turboflame]

[citation][nom]bustapr[/nom]That was just, plain stupid. Are you going to press charges for that too?[/citation]

Yes. The point is that this law would be insanely abused.

 

[bustapr]

It would be insanely abused since the internet is the safest place to say racist comments and get away with it. But what if internet companies froze IP-adresses? Unchangable adresses. Would it be that hard to find the crook. Things on the net should be treated as in the real world. If you call a white cop a redneck(no offence to anybody, its just an example) do you suppose you can get away with that, no, first you'll get beat up then you'll go to a cell. So there is all the reason in the world to judge online offences as in the streets.

 

[solymnar]

Right...but as mentioned many times now...there already exists laws to deal with harassment and racism etc. etc. etc.

So making one set of rules for theatening your life in person or over a phone etc. and a harsher set of rules for threatening your life online is absurd.

If some jack@ss gets a bunch of people together to call someone a dummyhead at high school, or post on a blog that x person is a dummyhead, and the one of those "might" get them sent to the principal's office but the other one earns them a FELONY...

Yeah...that's all sorts of wrong. Fully half or more of the people in any given high school are insecure dumb@sses and pretty clueless.

So lets just dole out felony's ... which will fix ... nothing.
Its about as stupid as busting a teenager for sending a nakkid pic of themselves under grounds of possessing child pornography...because teenagers never do things like that...and don't make out in their first car in some park or at some house party and do stupid things.

Lets just screw up their lives a little more because they make dumb mistakes and are relatively clueless.

Some people are utterly and completely out of touch with reality and obviously do not remember what it was actually like in high school.

 

[Guest]

there goes our freedom of speech... AGAIN

 

[Guest]

furthermore who is so insecure to allow themselves to be 'coerced' through the internet... that idea in itself is absurd

 

[Guest]

I'm pretty sure most people commenting don't even know what happened in this Megan Meier case. A grown woman pretended to be a teenage boy on the myspace and befriended a young girl, probably engaging in some sort of pedophiliac cyber-activities along the way.

Then, when this grown woman felt this young girl was sufficiently attached to this made up boy, this grown woman proceeded to tell her how fat and ugly she was and how no one liked her.

Thinking all these insults were coming from a boy her age that she trusted and loved this girl became completely distraught, as young girls tend to be in these types of situations,and because children have no scope on life she killed herself thinking the world had ended already. This grown woman that harrasted a young girl until she killed herself got one year's probation and a $5,000 fine.

However, the biggest issue isn't this "cyber-bullying," it's the "faceless anonymity." If they got rid of that, there wouldn't be a problem. Existing laws regarding harrassment would be enforceable in cases of cyber-bullying if you could prove who did what. The internet needs to be completely wiped out and redone without the anonymous part.

If everyone had to give thier social security number or similiar personal information to register for email accounts, forums, games, myspace, etc. it would be much less likely for things like this to happen and would be infinately easier to prosecute offenders. But, this will never happen because everyone is afraid everyone else will find out about thier pron habits.