TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the civil rights law, in relation to protecting a person's right to know who is behind an anonymous internet posting
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To enact the Internet Protection Act to provide reasonable protection to individuals from anonymous Internet posters.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 contains definitions and requires a website administrator, upon request to remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate. Also, requires website administrators to have a contact number or e-mail address posted for removal requests, clearly visible in any section where comments are posted.
JUSTIFICATION: Bullies are notorious for harassing and/or threatening their victims face-to-face. However, modern technology now allows this behavior to occur anonymously, from just about anywhere - at any time. Using electronic communications devices, cyber bullies can post damaging comments about a person on a website, while remaining anonymous and difficult to trace. While cyber bullying is often committed by or against children, it is by no means confined to children.
Anonymous postings on the internet not only can harm the persons or businesses being directly victimized, but they also hurt the public in general. When anonymous posters hide behind the interact to facilitate a crime (such as harassment) or as a vehicle for defamation, innocent men, women and children are openly victimized, and the public is inten- tionally mislead.
This legislation simply provides a means for the victim of an anonymous posting on a website to request that such post be removed, unless the anonymous poster is willing to attach his or her name to it.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New Bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: None
EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the ninetieth clay after it shall have become a law.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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