NJ Proposed Forum Legislature

sleepyinsunnyvale · Post by **sleepyinsunnyvale** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:40 pm

Below is a link to a piece of legislature being proposed in NJ

Note #2 in particular

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills ... 327_I1.HTM

Brent Hutto · Post by **Brent Hutto** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:52 am

Hmmm, in other words they want to make sure there are no Internet Service Providers in the state of New Jersey.

If I were a taxpayer in that state I'd write the sponsors of that bill a stern letter asking them to spend their time on things that they actually have jurisdiction over.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:24 am

That's just awful. So much for the First Amendment in New Jersey.

Barnaby · Post by **Barnaby** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:14 am

Seems to me that it says..if you want to flame someone.you better get your name and addy out there so you can be held liable for running them in to the ground falsely and then hiding your identity.. I will go along with that.

Free Speech · Post by **Free Speech** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:32 pm

Erik S. Jaffe, Esq. wrote:In order to maintain the basic norm of freedom in our society, we must be ever vigilant of government efforts to regulate the citizenry in anticipation of potential unlawful conduct, rather than in response to such conduct. Nowhere is that more true than in the area of speech, where history has proven that the government’s motives are often less than pure, and that petty bureaucrats will abuse any mechanism for controlling speech if given half a chance. The Supreme Court thus has correctly reminded us all that

[a]s a matter of principle a requirement of registration in order to make a public speech would seem generally incompatible with an exercise of the rights of free speech and free assembly. … [A] requirement that one must register before he undertakes to make a public speech ...is quite incompatible with the requirements of the First Amendment.

That the Court has once again defended the First Amendment from attack in this case, and reminded us of the importance of free speech in the process, should thus give comfort and confidence to those who cherish individual freedom in all of its forms.*

*excerpts from:Free Speech Means Not Having to Play "Mother May I?" with the Government