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Posted on Thu, Mar. 06, 2008
Anonymous Web postings targeted
BILL WOULD REQUIRE NAMES, ADDRESSES
By John Cheves
A bill filed in the House would keep Kentuckians from posting
anonymous
comments to Web sites.
House Bill 775, filed Tuesday by Rep. Tim Couch, R-Hyden, would
require
anyone who contributes to a Web site to register a real name,
address
and e-mail address with that Web site. The person's full name then
would
be used whenever he or she posted a comment.
Web site operators who violate the disclosure law would be fined
$500
for a first offense and $1,000 for each subsequent offense.
Couch readily acknowledged on Wednesday that his bill raises First
Amendment issues regarding free speech, so he won't be pushing it..
But
he wanted to call attention to the phenomenon of unkind and often
untrue
comments about people being posted online by Kentuckians hiding
behind
the cloak of anonymity.
"Some nasty things have been said about high school kids in my
district,
usually by other kids," Couch said. "The adults get in on it, too.."
"When you're anonymous, you can say anything you want to about
someone,
and nobody knows who you are," he said.
Couch said he, too, has been the subject of anonymous online
roasting,
and while he doesn't enjoy it, he doesn't think there's much the
legislature can do about it.
"I think right now (online posting) is pretty much just on its own.
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