New Ill. bill would prevent individuals from posting anonymously on websites

[badrose]

http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/02/...y-on-websites/

Illinois state Sen. Ira Silverstein recently introduced the Internet Posting Removal Act (IPRA), which would allow website administrators to track – and delete, if necessary - comments made by anonymous posters on their websites, “unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate.”

[CitizenBBN]

It's deeply disturbing how many politicians have no idea that the government is supposed to have boundaries.

[BigBlueBrock]

Politicians keep attempting this and keep failing.

[dan_bgblue]

It's deeply disturbing how many politicians have no idea that the government is supposed to have boundaries.

Just as disturbing is the fact that we keep voting them back into office every time their term is about to expire.

[KeithKSR]

Illinois politicians are asking sites to do something that is much easier to legislate than it is to accomplish.

[jazyd]

That is the major problem. Obama gets reflected even though he has every intention and always has of doing what liberal democrats want women to do to attackers, he is peeing on the constitution. Pelolsi is the worst majority leader in the last century. Reid is. Even worse than the last senate leader who was a republican. My 2 senators in miss area worthless and they are R. Problem is once they get in they build a war chest that makes them are to defeat. And the few good ones lose because they stick to their principles and try to do right foe the country and get defeated by advertisising.

Quite a mess we have built

Just as disturbing is the fact that we keep voting them back into office every time their term is about to expire.

[CitizenBBN]

The reason they keep getting back in office is neither side offers anything but those kinds of politicians. Few in the GOP hesitate to use government to do their bidding either. There are slim pickings for the "that's not government's business" voter.

I can't believe the internet has survived as long as it has with relatively little regulation. It's been something of a firewalled entity and ironically one of the reasons given is one they forgot for everything else: not messing it up and hurting what the market is accomplishing with it. Between that and the obvious speech and assembly issues it's been OK, but I doubt it lasts. Internationally the fascists and potentates can't wait to get their hands on it.

This is an obvious freedom of assembly issue. People have the right to assemble in whatever way they choose. You don't have to assemble with them if you don't want.

[badrose]

If the free press would just do its job we wouldn't be so dependent on the internet. Who would have imagined that truth would be as precious a commodity as gold.