[IP] NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Subject: NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:22:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Lynn <lynn@ecgincc.com>
To: dave@farber.net

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/03/06/1736234.shtml


NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 06, @02:06PM
from the glad-we're-not-in-nj dept.
Privacy The Internet
An anonymous reader writes "The New Jersey legislature is considering a
bill that would require operators of public forums to collect users' legal
names and addresses, and effectively disallow anonymous speech on online
forums. This raises some serious issues, such as to what extent local and
state governments can go in enacting and enforcing Internet legislation."

link to proposed bill:
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A1500/1327_I1.HTM


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