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Provides that a web site administrator shall remove any comments posted upon request unless the poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Operations · Sponsor Dean Murray
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BILL NUMBER:S6779
Title of bill
An act to amend the civil rights law, in relation to protecting a person's right to know who is behind an anonymous internet posting
Purpose
To enact the Internet Protection Act to provide reasonable protection to individuals from anonymous Internet posters.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 contains definitions and requires a website administrator, upon request to remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms his or her address, legal name, and home address are accurate. Also, requires website administrators to have a contact number or email address posted for removal requests, clearly visible in any section where comments are posted.
Justification
Bullies are notorious for harassing and/or threatening their victims face-to-face. However, modem technology now allows this behavior to occur anonymously, from just about anywhere at any time. Using electronic communications devices, cyber bullies can post damaging comments about a person on a website, while remaining anonymous and difficult to trace. While cyber bullying is often committed by or against children, it is by no means confined to children.
Anonymous postings on the internet not only can harm the persons or businesses being directly victimized, but they also hurt the public in general. When anonymous posters hide behind the internet to facilitate a crime (such as Harassment) or as a vehicle for defamation, innocent men, women and children are openly victimized, and the public is intentionally mislead.
This legislation simply provides a means for the victim of an anonymous posting on a website to request that such post be removed, unless the anonymous poster is willing to attach his or her name to it.
Legislative history
New Bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Local fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
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