Don\'t bug me

It seems it\'s now aginast the law to annoy online
\"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.\"

This is the basic outline of what the law says! WTF MAN

Holy christ, what the hell..? Our jails are already overstuffed, but we\'re arresting people for online harassment..?

This is rediculas. The police and any other law enforceing people have much better things to do than arrest people wo are annoying. Yet again Bush as made a move that is comepletely unneccesary.

That\'s pretty close to the dumbest law I\'ve ever seen. Basically, they\'re sending people to jail just for being annoying when people commit actual crimes and get away with it. God, the government can be so stupid....

Hey Hollow, I\'m molesting you with bandwidth. You\'d better call the cops on me.

I bet you the law gets thrown out really fast.

I don\'t know, remember when they said they were sure they would throw out the death penalty? Well, Florida and Texas are already working on speed aisles so theres no more \"waiting for 20 years to be killed\" crap.

WOO! Go teh South!

Finally, no need to waste 20 years of resources on convicted murderers.

\"Rules are meant to be broken,\" as one guy once said. \"that\'s one of the unwritten rules of humanity.\"

Well, I\'m marking that down on yet ANOTHER thing President Bush has done to screw up the internet. First I was that thing that limited gore and nudity, and now he signs this stupid law.

I hope the candidates are better in 2008...

O MY GOD this is the most reatrded thing i\'ve seen this year. And it has been this year for only 10 days. i don\'t wanna know what is gonna happen later this year

Wearing black underwear will become \'punishable\', cuzz it\'s discraminating? >>
ANY sort of violence in games, even so unrealistic, will be BANNED, like, FOREVER? <<
Showing a wrist will become seen as \'porn\'? o.O

[Edited on 10-1-2006 by Morphman]

let\'s pray to God that doesn\'t happen.

Well... wristcuffs are pretty stylish.

... should you really be harassing people online anyway? I mean, sure that\'s harsh for it, but it\'s not that hard of a thing for people who aren\'t n00bs to avoid.

The law is too broad.

And some people find certain things annoying while others don\'t.

So, yeah, that\'s why I said that it won\'t last that long.

:rofl:

WOW. Now I have heard some pretty stupid rules/laws before, but that takes the cake! It is more than stupid, it is funny!

I know many people online that I have no clue what their reals names are and they annoy me. But, I wouln\'t want to put them in jail for it. >>

*starts poking Mega X*

Better call the cops. :o

*pokes Ryouga*

I\'m gonna serve alot of jailtime for this. :o

Take a look at this site for even stupider laws.

Hollow u R teh stoopid!!11!11!!

*BAM BAM* Open up, it\'s the police!

Aww cra-*drug away*

Really, this law won\'t be upheld, what if it\'s people in Japan harrassing Americans?

MONEYZ FER N0BZ PLXkTHX BY!

*Go Directly to JAIL...do not pass go, do not collect 200 Dollars*

*calls the cops*
Hello, yes I would like to have hollowtorment arrested....Yes....I don\'t know the real name......What did he do?...he typed poke and it\'s annoying me......yes...I understand...You can\'t do anything?.......I see.......Yes I understand I\'m retarded......Sorry for taking up your time like that...

[Edited on 11-1-2006 by J_Hibiki]

*pokes BlueSilver*

HARHARHAR I AM TEH TOTAL WINNAR

This is certainly one of the most awful decisions I have heard. Yes, there is such a thing as harrassment on the internet. Say, someone hacks into your website..they should be persecuted (if found) by denying their internet access. NOT jailtime. Damn.

Its smart, but could be taken to a whole new level, by annoyed, I think they mean harrassed, as in:\"Where do you live? How old are you? I\'m literally going to kill you!\"
Things like that, but as it was pointed out a *poke* could set someone off, however I don\'t think anyone on this site is retarded enough to do that.

*pokes Ribitta*
Ooh, here come t3h Police peoples. Yay.
Maybe I\'ll get time for rape too. Oh, my bad, it\'s \"surprise sex\"now. I\'ll be arrested for annoying and alleged \"surprise sex\".

*pokes magiman*
Run teh cops are comin11111!

Honestly this must be one of those one month-jail sentence crimes.

Okay, no more. This is turning into a spam \"poke the person above you and then make jokes about jail sentences\" thread.

*pokes Magiman* N0 1T\'S N0T!!1!

Hurhurhur magiman u sux im harasing u

Really now, you shouldn\'t post exactly like everyone above you who\'s supposedly spamming, then go HAY U GUYS R TEH SPAMING STOP IT.