Jophiel wrote:
I'll let you have butt-sex with Jacobsdeception if you ban her!
No lie.
heres your answer Joph
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the new law that was enacted in january has a number of problems, and because we've thus far only seen one case be prosecuted under it, its hard to really discuss the legal merits of this law.
but here is a summarized version of the law:
"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
now i dont know enough about the internet to know if what that person did would count as "utilizing a device or software" that has the intent to annoy, abuse, etc etc. it sounds like it does. but then the further question is whether the speech is protected under first amendment. plenty of legal scholars have already debated that this law is unconstitutional in a number of different situations under the first amendment. so even if the intent her was to annoy or harrass, it could be protected under the first amendment.
plus, this is somethng that would be a criminal sanction so it's not as if the kid could do something civilly to protect him/herself.
so my long answer is, theoretically it sounds like it violates the new law, but practically, it doesn't make a lick of difference because very little would happen anyway.
DSD this post originated in the Sandbox and when some OOT folks did move to another forum to post , some members of your forum still had a problem. Deal with it.
Edited, Tue Apr 18 17:43:43 2006 by niobia