Cyberbullying Law Struck Down

[bhunter]

And another overly broad freedom restrictive law struck down—by, of all courts, the NY Court of Appeals.

The New York Court of Appeals, in a 5-2 ruling, held on Tuesday that the 2010 Albany County law prohibited a vast swath of speech "far beyond the cyberbullying of children," in violation of the First Amendment.

The court's ruling could stand as a guidepost for other state high courts hearing challenges to such laws, as well as for states and localities considering criminal penalties for cyberbullying, legal experts said. Besides Albany, four other New York counties and more than a dozen states, including Louisiana and North Carolina, have similar laws.

The Albany law made it a crime to electronically communicate "private, personal, false, or sexual information," intended to "harass, annoy, threaten, abuse, taunt, intimidate, torment, humiliate, or otherwise inflict significant emotional harm on another person" for no legitimate purpose.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/new-y...LEFTTopStories

[JJIII]

They didn't build this place just to let it go to waste.

http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/

Click on the links at the top of the home page.

[donquixote99]

I don't instantly get the connection of the NSA Data Center to the failure of the cyberbullying act.

But I browsed a little, and was sort of surprised by this:

The exterior of every piece of paper mail processed in the United States is photographed and stored by the "Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program"

[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

But I browsed a little, and was sort of surprised by this:

That's been going on for a long time.

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by JJIII

They didn't build this place just to let it go to waste.

http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/

Click on the links at the top of the home page.

That's a great parody site of the NSA. When I saw the ribbon cutting, I immediately thought of cable cutting. The sad part is the real NSA is so damned opaque. I didn't even know of its existence until I worked with a cryptology wonk in a graduate seminar that was a former employee.

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I don't instantly get the connection of the NSA Data Center to the failure of the cyberbullying act.

But I browsed a little, and was sort of surprised by this:

I am struck by the depths of our own stupidity.

Pete

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by bhunter

That's a great parody site of the NSA. When I saw the ribbon cutting, I immediately thought of cable cutting. The sad part is the real NSA is so damned opaque. I didn't even know of its existence until I worked with a cryptology wonk in a graduate seminar that was a former employee.

Damn! I was snookered!

http://nsa.gov1.info/about/about.html

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by bhunter

That's a great parody site of the NSA. When I saw the ribbon cutting, I immediately thought of cable cutting. The sad part is the real NSA is so damned opaque. I didn't even know of its existence until I worked with a cryptology wonk in a graduate seminar that was a former employee.

I was aware of them in the late 1980s because somehow I was 'invited' to speak to them about a new network technology. What impressed me when I arrived at Spook City (our name for the building) was that upon learning that I was a Canadian citizen they were not about to let me in. The eventually found a 'black' conference room that I was taken to almost blindfolded.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Damn! I was snookered!

http://nsa.gov1.info/about/about.html

You and me both!

My apologies to all.

(Sure did fit what I wanted to believe though. Do you reckon that has ever happened to anyone else here?)

[piece-itpete]

X3

Pete