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kudos:5 | RE:Illinois Politician Seeks To Outlaw Anonymous Comments quote:
Provides that a web site administrator shall, upon request, remove any posted comments posted by an anonymous poster unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate.
It kind of makes me wonder who is going around giving state politicians this language.
The ones pushing this language are probably some ambulance chasing law firms(or the ABA as a whole) looking to generate a lot of lawsuits for defamation, slander, libel or invasion of privacy. Even if you win when sued, you pay a lot of money to lawyers while the politician suing you is funded by public tax dollars.
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| How can one defame, slander, or libel an Illinois politician, just look at their governors, making license plates.
For clarity, I grew up in IL (southern IL) and left as soon as I could. |
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| said by Austinloop:How can one defame, slander, or libel an Illinois politician, just look at their governors, making license plates.
For clarity, I grew up in IL (southern IL) and left as soon as I could.
Well, there is Chicago, then there's Illinois.. Both fucked up in their own sort of way yet so different too. lol. (Grew up in dupage Originally)
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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how much power would such a bill actually have. If it is only at the state level they would be hard pressed to enforce it on say this website. as DSLR is hosted and operated from New Jersey afaik.
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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And yet, it also suspiciously mirrors efforts many large tech firms have tried to do with their social media.... Google, Facebook, even Blizzard entertainment. Wanting to attach real names and real ID's to public internet accounts, etc etc and discourage/prevent anonymous posting or pseudonyms.
Hmmmmm.
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If I had to guess (which I do because I don't know  ) I would say this is intended to protect businesses & politicians (same thing really) from people complaining about them. Home address?! Give me a break. How about when a post is deleted upon request, it is replaced with "Deleted by: " followed by the requestor's legal name (no corporate names allowed) and HOME address which the website admin has confirmed as valid? Since this has the potential for wasting TONS of the admin's time, the requestor should have to pay a $10 research fee for each removal (to verify their name/address)
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It kind of makes me wonder who is going around giving state politicians this language.
Come on Techdirt, aren't you up on current politics? It is called ALEC!
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