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http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/arizona-bill-could-criminalize-internet-trolling-184547052.html

Just had to go and toss this one up, since we all use the net and I'm sure have had run-ins with trolls before.

Does this mean that all those annoying political mudslinging adds in America will be yanked if it passes?

They should, but won't as they'll find/make a loop hole for it.

So what happens if an illegal immigrant goes onto the internet and starts trolling?

Is that like, a double whammy? Or do offenses not stack?

Not even lascivious acts are exempted?

How will I sext significant others?

Seriously though, we can't intentionally annoy other people? That's a boring world.

I don't know, but if you go to Mexico and do your trolling from there are you in trouble when you go back to the US if your troll posts had been deleted prior to your return?

The thing I got a laugh out of is this quote from the law "any person, with intent."

I can just see it; No officer I didn't intend to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend him when I told him to go feth himself...

Is it just me or this a way of killing 4chan?

And the net will become a very, very boring place.

And doesn't america have that freedom of speech thing?

Nom

Facepalm.

love the comment at the bottom of the article:

So if im annoyed by something posted here: Do i call nine one one, or my service provider?

OK, So now I want to plant a big sign that says "Arizona Sucks" on the Mexico, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah borders with Arizona then get back on a plane to the UK. Just as a laugh at this law so that my intent is not to annoy but to point out the flaws in the law.

Trolls mostly use proxies so it won't do much if they are anon on the internet.

fluffstalker wrote:Facepalm.

Not facepalm, just badly written. There have been a spate of suicides by people harassed on Facebook etc. My view is, if they harass you on the internet, beat them with a shovel in the RealLifenet.

Sonophos wrote:OK, So now I want to plant a big sign that says "Arizona Sucks" on the Mexico, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah borders with Arizona then get back on a plane to the UK. Just as a laugh at this law so that my intent is not to annoy but to point out the flaws in the law.

Naw, you'd be extradited....and prob sent to Gitmo, cause ya know if you troll, you're prob involved with Al-Qaeda

Sonophos wrote:OK, So now I want to plant a big sign that says "Arizona Sucks" on the Mexico, California, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah borders with Arizona then get back on a plane to the UK. Just as a laugh at this law so that my intent is not to annoy but to point out the flaws in the law.

I'm offended and i reckon there was intent.

How do I actually call you up on this?

lol this is the stupidest law since they made suicide attempts punishable by death.

Nom

Pack of legislative morons who do not understand the internet and are frightened by it and so want to control it.


'series of tubes' etc...

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Pack of legislative morons who do not understand the internet and are frightened by it and so want to control it.


'series of tubes' etc...

Incorrect. Its more of "won't someone think of the children!!!!" Your nanny state at work.

On a related note, What happened with PIPA and SOPA?

Nom

Am I the only one who say this thread title and was jazzed thinking there might be a "Trollhunter II" in the works?

dogma wrote:Seriously though, we can't intentionally annoy other people?

"Problem dogma?" -- Arizona Legislature






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LordofHats wrote:So what happens if an illegal immigrant goes onto the internet and starts trolling?

Is that like, a double whammy? Or do offenses not stack?

Pft, no one understands Mexican. Fail troll is fail.

Manchu wrote:Pft, no one understands Mexican. Fail troll is fail.

Ah, but isn't it more troll when you can't understand what they're saying?

LordofHats wrote:Ah, but isn't it more troll when you can't understand what they're saying?

Gpiefbhp3eiwrutgc?

Nope.

(Please don't call the cops.)

Frazzled wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Pack of legislative morons who do not understand the internet and are frightened by it and so want to control it.


'series of tubes' etc...

Incorrect. Its more of "won't someone think of the children!!!!" Your nanny state at work.

I'd say your both right here, mean states why they want to do it, you show how they get the public to accept it.

So theyr'e saying I'll be able to ban Santorum?

Manchu wrote:(Please don't call the cops.)

You should have thought of that before you broke the law!

LordofHats wrote:You should have thought of that before you broke the law, creep!

FIFY.

Arizona saw all the attention Kansas received with its laughably bad decisions and said, "I believe we can do better." This is the land of Sheriff Joe, the "illegal to be Hispanic," law, and now, it seems, the state that may outlaw pretty much everything on the internet.

LordofHats wrote:

Manchu wrote:Pft, no one understands Mexican. Fail troll is fail.

Ah, but isn't it more troll when you can't understand what they're saying?

liek no, der, u'z liek tottz wrng yh, ya git me?

I don't think so, cos people then ignore them. kinda defeating the point of trolling.

Nom

nomsheep wrote:liek no, der, u'z liek tottz wrng yh, ya git me?

I don't think so, cos people then ignore them.

Case in point, I did this exact same joke ITT hours before your post.

"Problem Manchu?"

Manchu wrote:

nomsheep wrote:liek no, der, u'z liek tottz wrng yh, ya git me?

I don't think so, cos people then ignore them.

Case in point, I did this exact same joke ITT hours before your post.

"Problem Manchu?"

Sorry, I missed it.

Nom

I believe this violates the 1st Amendment. But since when has Arizona cared about the Constitution?