Proposed legislation in NY would remove anonymous postings on websites.

yet you can anonymously look a kidddy porn so long as you are "merely viewing" it.

NYC is

5 stars

Wow, nice find, D.

They really want to be able to put the comments to a face.

Yea, how many legislators have it on their computers...?


What don't these idiots get, the more you try to contain the internet the bigger it gets.

Would it affect sock puppets or shills posting from warehouse locations?

These are the idiots that somehow believe that this can be enforced.

Cass Sunstein, izzat you?

Balls licking lion is all I'll have for 'em

Have fun with that. Will never work. Politicians are an obsolete tool in governance.

they are above the law. it's sickening

well, they have to attach an identity to these people so they can arrest them for having "inappropriate and inflammatory" political views.

i say 7 years or so.

Yea this has no chance so long as the 1st amendment is around. But you can connect the dots to the ultimate end-game

As in their real name?

Tolerance will be enforced at the end of a gun.

The only thing that won't be tolerated is intolerance.

Enter 1984

Name and face. Real AV

Dumbasses that propose these things have no clue how difficult it would be to enforce.

You gonna make every website that comes through a new york isp server to a ny customer install special software to prevent it?

Or are they going to form an internet police force to track down anonymous posters and cite them for posting anonymously? Fine them? Make them appear in court?

Can you imagine what sort of infrastructure of software and personnel would be required to enforce such a law?

So how would glp or any other website be required to appear and function differently in ny state without them having to be somehow modified to comply?

The dumbshits that come up with this shit obviously don't use the internet themselves.

New York is following in California’s footsteps and killing local businesses one way or another and since this stupidity is only enforceable on New York based, websites it only hurts NY based websites.

Haha good point! This would never work out the way they wanted.

Just domains registered in NY I think.

Which forces out business...these politicians are just dumb

how can a website ever be new york based?

wtf does this mean, apart from the obvious domain name registration.

but does a domain name registration detail make a website based at the address on register?

after thought it must just mean data hosted on servers physically in new york.

Correct.

Can you imagine how this would effect businesses in NYC? lol

CP = OK

AC = NO WAY

"mean-spirited and baseless political attacks" - you mean like the ones they pay millions to air on national television?

Big Bad AC's are hurting the politicians feelings :(

Guess it would be a good time make sure your datacenter isn't in NY.. which it probably isn't LOL.

They couldn't possibly enforce that...

Just as soon as they start posting the names on every check they cash or electronic contribution that gets credited to their campaign chests.

after careful reading

i would like to clarify what this bill means.

it does not ban or prevent anonymous postings.

but if the website administrator is based in NY then they will have to remove specific anonymous posts on request from their website.