Sayin’s stuff on Al Gore’s Internets
So, some guy said something really stupid on a blog comment section. He gets arrested for it. Ya know, free speech includes the right to say stupid things.
Update: what he said.
So, some guy said something really stupid on a blog comment section. He gets arrested for it. Ya know, free speech includes the right to say stupid things.
Update: what he said.
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December 3rd, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I’d have asked to see the warrant before giving up any ISP info.
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:42 pm
First Amendment? I thought they got rid of that when they instituted “Free Speech Zones” during the last presidential election… Then again, the Founding Fathers didn’t specifically state that the First Amendment applied to comments on the Internet. So I guess the .gov’s covered.
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Seriously though, arresting someone based on these kinds of comments really could have a chilling effect on the dialogue both political and otherwise We the People are growing accustomed to on the web. The conspiracy theorist in me could easily come to believe that this is exactly the reason for such arrests. I really don’t think the .gov is sufficiently coordinated to pull off such a conspiracy. But the aggregate effect of all these small usurpations is really indistinguishable and produces the same net effect.
As to the request for the user’s IP address: I too would rather they had insisted on seeing a warrant before releasing the data. For every inch we give the .gov will try to take a mile.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:09 pm
I’d like to see more trolls arrested.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
“the commenter is a liberal who is trying to discredit conservatives”
I would’nt doubt that at all.
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:09 pm
The guy is a dickhead. The bigger dickheads are those who arrested and charged him and are likely to prosecute him.
I can deal with his kind of dickheadedness without getting radical. To stop those other dickheads, people must be hurt. Tell me now, who is the more dangerous to society. It isn’t dickhead number 1.
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
You need a poll for this one.
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
I’d comment, but I’d need to check with my lawyers first and it’s not worth the bother.