NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums

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."

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Civil Rights

[stlhawkeye]

The only thing that's worse for civil rights than a Republican government is a Democratic one. For all the failings of Republicans, I find Democrats are far more often found running around like little busybodies trying to protect everybody from themselves. So we either get Jesus shoved up our butts or well-intentioned hand-wringers trying to stop us from running with scissors. I'm honestly not sure which is worse.