Proposal to ban anonymous posters online...ie, bullies and cowards

"Kentucky State Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.

• The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.

Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.

• If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be five-hundred dollars for a first offense andone-thousand dollars for each offense after that.

Representative Couch says he filed the bill in hopes of cutting down on online bullying"....

• From WTVQ tv, Lexington, Kentucky, by Kelly Wilson, 3/5/08. Via the Drudge Report.

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