HORRAY, I LIVE IN CANADA. **** YOU UNITED STATES LAW. WOO.

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Won’t pbum. Would remove the right to free speech on the internet.

More likely it’ll pbum and get overturned.

MC Banhammer Posted:

On this site, posting in all-caps in CD is against the law. Or at least the rules. Even in Canada.

You’ve been warned.

meh forgot where I was.

Internet is dangerous.

Uh I’m not sure this bill would violate first amendment rights… free speech doesn’t really apply to the kind of speech they’re talking about. The first amendment doesn’t protect you against saying anything you want.

If it was only used to prevent things that cause real damage to people then yeah, it’d be fine, but that’s not what’s going to happen. FWZ is going to be shut down in a ****ing week. Religious groups will get websites that refute their insane/idiotic beliefs shut down. Furfabulous persons will be free to pervert our youth with no opposition whatsoever. **** will hit the fan repeatedly, and the internet will be worthless.

At least that’s what I expect.

EDIT: And it’s not like the gub’mint has enough resources to actually prosecute everyone who violates this law anyways. Especially not when they can slap 500 proxies down then get a few hundred of their 4Chan bumbuddies to join in.

Wow, more gub’mint intervention in our lives when it’s no ones business.

Raepdog Posted:

Internet is dangerous.

and full of fail

Essentially the point of the bill is that through the internet, someone can (anonymously) cause someone else to undergo extreme stress and depression, possibly to the point of suicide or murder.

So instead of doing anything to help these people, or releasing a PSA telling parents to make sure their kids don’t off themselves over an internet troll, or release PSAs in the schools letting kids know not to take things seriously, they’re just going to wreck the first amendment.

As said in the article on slashdot, this WILL be misused.

Imagine this: In GRP, I’m talking to this guy, and he’s being a huge douche. In fact he is a douche [...with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harbum, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior…].

Under this law (if it pbumes), he would technically be doing something illegal, and this would merit less than 2 years in prison, or a small fine.

This will probably be similar to all the laws against downloading music, it’s illegal; but everyone does it anyway. The reason why? Because arresting them all would require thousands (if not millions) of police officers, to storm every 15 year olds house (this is of course after flooding the judicial system with warrants and such), arrest them, go through a trial in which they’ll need to defy our privacy by obtaining private records, and then give them a $200 fine.

Other than that, it’s a clear cut violation of the first amendment. Hell, telling someone that they smell can be considered [...the intent to coerce, intimidate, harbum, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior...].

Lord Shplane Posted:

FWZ is going to be shut down in a ****ing week.

3 Reasons that that is false.

1) Forumwarz has not trolled anyone.

2) Most of the base user is over 18.

3) It’s Canadian. Wait…actually that’s a good question, is it hosted in Canada? or in the US?

Fine 2 reasons. But the first is enough, it’s individual people.