Arizona law would criminalize being lewd or annoying on the Internet

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/30/arizona-law-would-criminalize-being-annoying-on-the-internet/


The Arizona state legislature apparently finds it difficult to tell the difference between a telephone and the Internet and has passed a bill that would extend the definition of harassment originally devised for phone conversations to anything communicated or published online.

As summarized by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, “The bill is sweepingly broad, and would make it a crime to communicate via electronic means speech that is intended to ‘annoy,’ ‘offend,’ ‘harass’ or ‘terrify,’ as well as certain sexual speech. Because the bill is not limited to one-to-one communications, H.B. 2549 would apply to the Internet as a whole, thus criminalizing all manner of writing, cartoons, and other protected material the state finds offensive or annoying.”
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Another aspect of the Big Brother State. My question is IF my friend who happens to write an erotic blog-Think Sex in the City going just crossing the X line-is read by someone from AZ can charges be pressed against her? She doesn't live in AZ never stepped inside the state. Will AZ go to the state she's in have her arrested and send to AZ?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. If you can't be lewd or annoying,

what's the use of the Internet?

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2. Wouldn't lewd and annoying be in the eye of the Beholder? I mean You and I may think a girl wearing

a mini skirt is just fine but for a Michelle Duggard type living in AZ she may say LEWD.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. Small Government Is Only For The Rich And Corporations

If you are an average soul you will be crushed by GOP big government. It is about taking away your rights and making you a slave. Republicans think that they should be the ruling class. Everything they do points to that attitude.

I suggest that people from out of state flood their legislative email with vile nasty things in protest. Will they arrest you if you come to Arizona. How does that work? Will they issue a warrant for your arrest if you are in Illionois and jail you at the border? Will they have checkpoints like in Eastern Europe under communist.

Every day the GOP finds a way to be stupid. And the problem is the number of stupid asses who support and vote for them.

[napoleon_in_rags]

5. +1 GOP government is huge. Every post on the Internet policed?

And the "annoying ones" are illegal. Enforcement must monitor every post on the Internet, requiring an OCEAN of taxpayer dollars. No thanks, AZ.

[freshwest]

7. +1

[niyad]

4. hmmm, if I go to AZ--can I complain about all the reichwing bs on the net--it certainly annoys

and offends ME.

[kudzu22]

6. Better just lock me up now

I'm a one-man crime wave

[Incitatus]

8. They want to ban Free Republic in Arizona?

[appleannie1]

10. Can't get more lewd than that.

[appleannie1]

9. And who gets to decide what is lewd or annoying? Say I post a cartoon on my facebook wall and

someone I don't know that just happens to live in Arizona sees it and instead of laughing at it, thinks it is offensive, does that mean I can be charged? I thought they were the party of small government. They act more like Gestapo.

[appleannie1]

11. Gestapo Overpowering People The new GOP

[saras]

12. A lot of mainstream movies fall in those categories...

and note that it's not anything YOU find annoying, it's anything the STATE finds annoying. Oh, boy.

[Kalidurga]

13. Would that law make this illegal???

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=9644

[Posteritatis]

14. Arizona law will get struck down on first challenge

Just like every other law along these lines that's gotten pushed in the last twenty years.