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Politicians + technology = disaster
Politicians + technology = disaster
Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
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It's nice to be back from CES and ready for news that's unrelated to either . But this is just a bit depressing. President Bush last week signed a bill that makes it a federal crime to "annoy" someone on the Internet, if you're doing so anonymously. You can post hostile, flame-y, rude, or otherwise "annoying" comments online only if you use your real name. Because hey, when it comes to determining whether a federal crime has been committed, annoying is a very legally specific term, I'm sure. Seriously, government? Get your greasy fingers off of our comment forms, OK?