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.