Bill Would Declare Your Blog a Weapon

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 5, 2009 @05:46AM from the can't-say-that-it's-too-severe dept.

Mike writes "Law prof Eugene Volokh blogs about a US House of Representatives bill proposed by Rep. Linda T. Sanchez and 14 others that could make it a federal felony to use your blog, social media like MySpace and Facebook, or any other Web media 'to cause substantial emotional distress through "severe, repeated, and hostile" speech.' Rep. Sanchez and colleagues want to make it easier to prosecute any objectionable speech through a breathtakingly broad bill that would criminalize a wide range of speech protected by the First Amendment. The bill is called The Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, and if passed into law (and if it survives constitutional challenge) it looks almost certain to be misused."

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Re:Only way to respond by TheRealMindChild · 2009-05-05 05:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In the House of Representatives, Linda Sanchez fucks YOU

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Re:Covered By Twenty Percent of the Bill of Rights by Kelbear · 2009-05-05 06:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'd say that Democrats /are/ less effective at infringing on civil liberties as Republicans, since the Republicans have held most of the power for the past several years. Now that they're the dominant party in both the white house and Congress we'll see how far they can get.
As for not calling on for BS, isn't that what this slashdot article and the 100+ posts below are about?