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Arizona bill makes it illegal to 'annoy or offend' online

  • 05-04-2012 8:35am
    #1
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,341 ✭✭✭✭


    It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act, or threaten to inflict physical harm to the person or property of any person.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/04/arizona_house_bill2549/

    This place would be screwed.


Comments

  • #2
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    *throws sheep at OP*


  • #3
    AeoNGriM
    Registered Users Posts: 712 ✭✭✭AeoNGriM


    So typing on a calculator and turning it upside down so it spells wanker is illegal now?

    Balls..........


  • #4
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,198 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    So the entirety of After Hours is now banned from Arizona??


  • #5
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    AeoNGriM wrote: »
    So typing on a calculator and turning it upside down so it spells wanker is illegal now?

    Balls..........
    What kind of weird-ass calculator have you got?


  • #6
    AeoNGriM
    Registered Users Posts: 712 ✭✭✭AeoNGriM


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    What kind of weird-ass calculator have you got?


    One that can get me arrested for profanity in Arizona, apparently!


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  • #7
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    CardBordWindow wrote: »
    So the entirety of After Hours is now banned from Arizona??

    No great loss, Arizona is a constant contender for the award of "worst state in the union"


  • #8
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    If that bill extends to TV & DVD's, then the State might as well turn Amish.


  • #9
    Susie_Q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Susie_Q


    How on earth would such a ridiculous law be enforceable?


  • #10
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Now tell me judge just wadda weeee gonna dooooo about dem intrynets?



    Arizona is a ****ing desert with some morons in it. Who ****ing cares.


  • #11
    Rastapitts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭Rastapitts


    wont somebody please think of the children


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  • #12
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Rastapitts wrote: »
    wont somebody please think of the children

    Actually I believe this was brought in as anti-bullying legislation, so yer not far wrong.

    This could actually eba good thing, make people think twice about the ****e they put online. Youtube might have to disable comments forever lol.


  • #13
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Youtube might have to disable comments forever lol.

    And nothing of value was lost.


  • #14
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    do illegal immigrants use the internet?
    can we call this law racist?


  • #15
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    ah great, so it's illegal to offend someone in Arizona now- lol
    World sure is turning out great.

    The quicker the terrorists get into power, the better.


  • #16
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    "Arizona Bill" sounds like a redneck


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    America. The land of the free.


  • #18
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    ffs you could have posted this earlier, i'm now fighting extradition to Arizona :(


  • #19
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    http://aussie-gamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/sad-troll.png


  • #20
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Arizona:

    First they came for the illegal immigrants,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't an illegal immigrant.

    Then they came for the internet trolls,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't an internet troll.

    Then they came for me,
    and there was no-one left to speak out for me, so Lou Ferrigno beat me up :(.


  • #21
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    This is ridiculous, Arizona is mostly a red state who don't want Big Government. Yet they allow the government tell them what to say, who they can arrest with no reason, what to do in the bedroom and how many dildos you can own (its five by the way) :rolleyes:


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  • #22
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Does this mean if I go to a poorly designed website and get annoyed trying to get something done on the site that someone could get sued?


  • #23
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Arizona is a silly little state with a small penis...Come get me Arizona


  • #24
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    No more telling random internet strangers to **** their mother in the shower.

    BOOO!


  • #25
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    my parents once had some people staying at their house from arizona (one of those town twinning things - carlow is twinned with tempe arizona) my god they were the most dullest bunch of people i ever met. no sense of humour, no wit, and droned on n on about the wet weather we have in ireland


  • #26
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Actually, surely this law only applies to people in Arizona...which basically has reduced them to the easiest targets on the internet.


  • #27
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    If that bill extends to TV & DVD's, then the State might as well turn Amish.

    Especially where Fox news is concerned.
    Hell, they might be guilty every ten minutes! :pac:


  • #28
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,626 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    How can you not offend ?

    Here and to a greater extent in the US there is bound to be someone who will take offense at what you say. And I use the verb take because some of them go out of their way to be offended.

    If this post has offended you and you are from the US, check the 4th and 5th amendments


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