Its because its bush.

Define annoying.


"I find you annoying, therefore you are committing a federal crime"

It's bull****. It's designed to protect women from potential women but it opens people up to extreme sentencing for ... well. .. nothing.

What makes it worse is that they slipped it in as a porker - if a Senator votes no to the legislation they bring themselves into the limelight for vetoing another piece of important legislation which they would otherwise agree with.

Whoever said big brother is a joke.

And the whole point of it is to prevent cyber stalking. And the law is a joke, anyone charged with this could fight it and win probably with ease. Don't see where the big deal the comes in.

There shouldn't even be the option of wasting tax money on such court cases.

It SHOULD NEVER have been passed as a porker, it's abysmal that the US senate let it pass and indicative of how much they actually care about justice funding.

It could be MUCH better written. Why was it not? Again shows a general apathy on the part of the US senate.

Our tax money is wasted on stuff much worse than fighting stuff like this.

The government will be increasingly trying to get a greater hold of the internet and establishing rules for the internet as the internet is increasingly a growing part of our society.

I don't go around harassing random ass people on the internet, so I guess I'm not so effected by it. I could understand where if I did I would be upset like some of you are.

Which does, of course, make the legislation entirely acceptable? No. This thread is about this particular piece of legislation, not other money wasting initiatives. That they exist is a non-issue here.

And to be a pedant, if I lived in America this post could make me susceptible to a Federal crime. I'm following the issue, some people could find it annoying and take me to court over it with this law as backing. It's an extreme situation, but the court cases I've seen coming out of America and I wouldn't put it passed you guys to try at some point ...

The other problem is that the internet is incredibly hard to legislate. I live in the UK, thus should not be applied to by American internet regulations, yet their regulations will still invariably affect me.

Yet "The government will be increasingly trying to get a greater hold of the internet and establishing rules for the internet as the internet is increasingly a growing part of our society."?

The two don't seem mutually exclusive.

i agree with iamalejo. if you waste your life spamming, and harrassing random people on the net i hope you get put away, your stealing my oxygen.

Jibber can expect a call from my lawyer

Like I give a fuck.