Annoying People Beware
Here is an interesting perspective on the new federal law prohibiting anonymous and "annoying" internet communications. The potential scope of such a law, which supposedly makes it a federal crime to use the "internet… without disclosing [one's] identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person…who receives the communications," is so broad and unworkable as to boggle the imagination. I knew of any number of people, including myself, that make potentially annoying commentary on internet message boards employing anonymous usernames. I could get a lengthy sentence for my post-Rose Bowl commentary alone. Hook’em.
