Anonymous trolls now a federal crime:

Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.

Actual text of the law:

"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."

Can't wait to see that implemented.

I'm curious how "intent to annoy" isn't protected under the First Ammendment.

Oh my internets, how I have missed you.

I also skipped. How are people?

Does that mean that posting a bad joke is illegal if you don't use your real name?

I'm curious to know how the fuck anyone's ever going to press charges anyway.

Does the first amendment say you have to be identifiable?

Good luck to them all.

I also skipped. How are people?

Don't tell her. Let her suffer for her sin of skippage.

So, I'm free to annoy all of you FUCKOS.

Perkins, you just watch yourself.

Be outright in your annoyingness!!

Yeah, the "intent to annoy" phrase also makes no sense to me. But also, like, since when is somebody on alt.sports.football calling someone else a doo-doo head worth making a federal case out of?

Unless the fines are going directly into the federal coffers? And the fines are enormous, and actually a source of profit? And, the internet being what it is, there are eleventy hundred kajillion offenses, each one with an enormous fine?

How to balance the federal budget while demolishing the income tax!!

FUCKOS.

Hey you're not really Allyson, you're Rio. Busted.