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Kentucky Rep. Tim Couch Wants to Ban Anonymous Online Postings

Atlanta, GA 3/10/2008 06:49 PM GMT (FINDITT)



Found this tidbit and thought of all my radio geek buddies who don't use their real names:

Kentucky State Representative Tim Couch (R-Hyden) filed a bill last week to make anonymous posting online illegal.

The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.

Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.

If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be $500 for a first offense and $1000 for each offense after that.

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Question for TPTB, if this goes into effect (will it affect Q100?) what will the future of Radio-Info be?


http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=39750&cat


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It won't affect me at all, since my name is Bill.....

This actually will help with another board I moderate since we are working to require it as part of the sign-up process, along with banning signups from free email accounts such as Yahoo, G-Mail, MSN, etc.
 
I say we just cut Kentucky out of the internet, and go on with our lives. I mean really, how many computers are there in Kentucky?
 
I think the ratio is 5:1. For every five teeth, there is one computer.

Therefore, there are 14 computers in kentucky.

G
 
Neil Millman said:
Kentucky Rep. Tim Couch Wants to Ban Anonymous Online Postings

Atlanta, GA 3/10/2008 06:49 PM GMT (FINDITT)



Found this tidbit and thought of all my radio geek buddies who don't use their real names:

Kentucky State Representative Tim Couch (R-Hyden) filed a bill last week to make anonymous posting online illegal.

The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.

Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.

If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be $500 for a first offense and $1000 for each offense after that.

[EDIT]
###
Question for TPTB, if this goes into effect (will it affect Q100?) what will the future of Radio-Info be?


http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=39750&cat


[EDIT-post truncated because originating material is copyrighted.]
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thats F***d up. just think if they did that how awkward would it be for u guys at work. lol
lot of unemployed radio people in 1 day.
 
ok that's fine.... deadman can die and can have a resurrection after 3 days. Anyone got a tomb I can borrow?
 
Most of us are safe...because we live in GEORGIA. Kentucky state law does not apply in Georgia (nor in Illinois - where Radio-Info is based out of.
 
As long as that dewsh doesn't have to throw the bill through a hanging tire for it to become law he may be onto something.
 
jal41 said:
Most of us are safe...because we live in GEORGIA. Kentucky state law does not apply in Georgia (nor in Illinois - where Radio-Info is based out of.
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That's exactly what I was thinking! I mean, how could they enforce that law even if they passed it? I doubt there's many sites originating in Kentucky, therefore, held under Kentucky law. If a .com or whatever would go to the expense of moving to another country to avoid that country's laws against them, then I doubt anyone running a message site in Kentucky would have the least bit problem moving to another state!
 
I think Fark.com is located in Lexington (along with their servers) and is going to have major problems if this passes.
 
upstate29651 said:
I think the ratio is 5:1. For every five teeth, there is one computer.

Therefore, there are 14 computers in kentucky.

G
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The laws of supply and demand dictate that my Dell must therefore be worth at 1500% of what I paid for it since I have one of the fourteen in Kentucky.

No.. wait a minute; I brought all of my teeth with me from Georgia. So I must either accept that the ratio has decreased or just have my teeth pulled.
 
Everyone chill. Do you really think it will pass because some has-been qg doesn;t like people bad things about his lousy career.
 
This is so stupid. I moved up to Louisville from Macon 10 years ago. Of all the problems this state has and needs to address this shouldn't even register. Any member of a state legislature that introduces something this stupid should be immediatly bounced from office at the next election.

In the words of Sheriff Buford T. Justice (A great American), "What the HELL is the world comin' to?!"
 
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