Kentucky lawmaker wants to criminalize anonymous posting

We haven’t handed out foil hat award lately, but we have a first class winner today. Kentucky Representative Tim Crouch wants to fine us if you post on our site using a handle instead of your real name.

quoting wtvq.com:

The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.

Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.

If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be five-hundred dollars for a first offense and one-thousand dollars for each offense after that.

Well Mr. Crouch, my name is Garry King and I live in the still relatively free state of Texas. My partners and I own this blog. You do not. We, not you, labor at the creation and maintenance of this site, pay for the bandwidth, deal with moderating hundreds of spam and indecent posts every day and reserve the sole right to determine whose may post may appear here and how they must identify themselves. With all due respect sir, please have a literate person read and explain the constitution to you. By the superior law therein, you are not permitted to intervene here.

By the way, we run a polite blog, no crap tolerated, including yours. Your foil hat is in the mail now.