But I don't want you to know who I am!
 

New Jersey is proposing a law that would eliminate anonymity for those posting on message boards such as this.

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bi...00/1327_I1.HTM

"This bill would require an operator of any interactive computer service or an Internet service provider to establish, maintain and enforce a policy requiring an information content provider who posts messages on a public forum website either to be identified by legal name and address or to register a legal name and address with the operator or provider prior to posting messages on a public forum website."

Hmmm......I'm sure there has to be reasons, such as libelous postings in the public arena, but I don't like this. MBC would be knocking on my door with a truckload of small appliances!

I don't like it either. Sounds like an open invitation for stalkers.

Admit it, Scaeagles! It was you in IKEA! :p You were probably shopping for small appliances to dump on MBC's doorstep.

Nope, would be the end of message boards.

Of course, if I have anything to say about it ... The LoT would flaunt any such unconstitutional regulation.

I don't see how a law New Jersey passed would affect us. We don't have anyone for NJ, do we?

No, but if it's passed nad somehow holds up under court scrutiny, it's likely to be brought up in other states, if not federally.

I've never been in an IKEA, though I've driven by one along I-10 on the south side of the metro Phoenix area.

I love you, man.

They want people to be identified always by name and address?! As if.

Fck the government.

I thought this was a free country.

But New Jersey's different.