[IP] more on Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@xxxxxxxx>
Date: January 9, 2006 5:40:25 PM EST
To: HLin@xxxxxxx, dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
Herb -
reading the text of the changed statute, it seems to me that the
result is far broader than just email and instant messages. It
covers ANY device or software capable of communicating over the
Internet in any way, and more importantly, paragraph (2) has a
meaning that is extended very broadly to include lots more people,
since the Internet facilities include many devices and wires that are
"used" by a communications and can be made "knowing" and therefore
responsible (far beyond those who own telephone companies).
It's completely reasonable that this rewording allows the federal
government to control ALL telecommunications facilities, public and
private, that are at all connected to the Internet, if there is some
chance that some employee or user might harass somebody in another
state.
In any case, it is way overbroad compared to the narrow and
reasonable analogy you made to IM and email.
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