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NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the glad-we're-not-in-nj dept.

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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  1. Re:Uh huh by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The intellectually weak and the state they affect will go into a decline or have a slower growth than their surrounding states - Kansas and NJ comes to my mind.

    The Internet and information abundancy is a new challenge for humans and evolution will sort between them.

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    It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
    Be yourself no matter what they say
  2. Re:Uh huh by Cheapy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    With guns. Lots and lots of beautiful guns.

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    Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
  3. Re:Uh huh by Irish_Samurai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That is unless it was intelligently designed to do that.

    There is no way that these pieces of legislation could have just materialized out of thin air, they must have been designed by an intelligent entity.

    And since you can't prove I'm wrong, that must mean that New Jersey and Kansas have the most intelligent people living there.

    Wait...