"Social networking" bill
CTNewsJunkie has a post of great interest to me and to CTs blogosphere(by Christine Stuart). It's about AG Blumenthal's proposed "social networking" legislation. It reads:
The goal of the bill is worthwhile, but if this bill doesn't undergo major revisions, CT-based blogs (including this one) may get effectively banned.While the bill proposed by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is well-intentioned, it may have some unintended consequences.
The bill would force social networking sites, defined broadly in the legislation, to verify the ages of users that comment or post their profiles on a site. The legislation is aimed at sites like MySpace and Facebook, but could include sites like Connecticut Local Politics, My Left Nutmeg, and perhaps CTNewsjunkie.com.
Here's the text of the social networking bill (scroll to the bottom to see the summary).
Anyway... as the legislature tries to rewrite this bill, I'm wondering if they could apply the same principles that apply to bartenders who are "supposed to know if someone is too drunk." (Although I'm not a lawyer, so that may be more urban legend than law.) Or the principles of copyright law, which are vague in nature... I think.
Tim White
2 comments:
Think the Hartford liberals care about the First Amendment?. Don William wants a stalinist speech code imposed on all political campaigns
yes all the democrats want us to be a USSR clone-we will all be reading the little red book and singing Lenin songs-or is that Lennon songs-There will be a revolt of all the workers and Joseph McCarthy will say there are know communists working in the state dept
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