Kentucky 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.
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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 and one-thousand dollars for each offense after that.
He admits that enforcement would be a problem. Just what we would need, more regulation that would need more bureaucracy to oversee it.
He’s submitted the bill because of the online bullying that is going on in his district and instead of banning the IP address of those who are a problem, he wants to punish the rest of us. Typical politician problem solving.
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