Re: [funsec] Don’t lol – Cyberbullying is No Joke in Congress

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:56:59 PDT, "Ali, Saqib" said:
> On September 30, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony
> concerning two bills aimed at combating cyberbullying. One bill, the
> Megan Meier Cyber Bullying Prevention Act, would criminalize
> cyberbullying,

`(a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication,
with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional
distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and
hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
two years, or both."

Death of 4chan predicted. Film at 11.

Seriously though - do we *really* want to pass a law that could potentially
make a lot of us felons?  As a thought experiment, take the gun-control
flame war we had recently, and add this sort of DA to the mix:

http://reason.com/blog/2009/09/28/hoosier-grandmother-arrested-f

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