How to be annoying and stay out of jail
YOU COULD hardly ask for a story more perfectly suited to mass-forwarded emailing than the one that began circulating last week to the effect that you could go to jail for annoying people with online postings. This story had everything: anti-Bush sentiment; bad law snuck in by virtue of being hidden in unrelated legislation (the Violence Against Women and Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005); abridgement of Internet freedoms; infringement of the First Amendment; stupid politics; oh, you name it. Man, it's better than the modem tax for flying around the world while the truth is still getting its Birkenstocks on. (You do know the modem tax is a hoax, right?) More: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28971 |
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