Thursday, May 24, 2012

Tar, feathers...

...some assembly required: NY Republicans aim to ban anonymous online comments | The Daily Caller
The sponsor of the state Senate’s version, Republican Thomas O’Mara, told TheDC that he had not initially considered that the legislation might ban First Amendment-protected speech.

“Today is the first day that these issues have been raised,” O’Mara said. “I haven’t gotten any comments from any of my colleagues in the Senate who said that this wasn’t a good idea.”
Well, the only requirement to get elected to and hold a seat is that one be alive, not that one have an IQ above room temperature.

Maybe Al Franken can lend them one of those Pocket Constitutions he's so proud of waving around.
Republican state Assemblyman Jim Conte praised the legislation, writing that it would eliminate “mean-spirited and baseless political attacks that add nothing to the real debate.”

The legislation would “demand that those who spread rumor, conjecture or outright lies online be willing to come forward and defend the comments they post,” Republican Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney added. “We, as a society, have never expected anything less when potentially harmful words are put into print.”
Like I said, tar, feathers...

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