Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online

New submitter OhSoLaMeow writes with a story at The Daily Caller with unpleasant news from the Illinois state Senate, where a state senator has introduced a bill that "would require anonymous website comment posters to reveal their identities if they want to keep their comments online." From the article (warning — obnoxious ads with sound): "The bill, called the Internet Posting Removal Act, is sponsored by Illinois state Sen. Ira Silverstein. It states that a 'web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site 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.'"

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Re: Death of Slashdot?

[cayenne8]

I'm so sick of people conflating leftists and liberals with Democrats.

Why?

In the US, they are considered as such.

And please, don't give me that 'left in the US is really almost right in the rest of the world'. Slashdot is a US centric site, and as such, the arguments on the political fronts are stated and argued on that basis.