New Jersey Assemblyman Peter J. Biondi has proposed a bill that would hold liable "Information content providers" who allow people to anonymously post on forums. It appears that liability would be extended to the poster as well.

People who run forums or any site where a comment could be left will be required to collect a legal name and address from those who post. The bill is aiming to cut defamatory and false information from being posted to web sites.

How’s that going to happen Mr Biondi? One has to wonder if a lawmaker like My Biondi has ever used a computer or surfed the internet. A proposal such as this is impossible to implement. How can a content provider be held liable because someone registers on a forum with a false name? We might as well shut done the internet in New Jersey!

A quote from the bill itself:

"This bill would require an operator of any interactive computer service or an Internet service provider to establish, maintain and enforce a policy requiring an information content provider who posts messages on a public forum web site either to be identified by legal name and address or to register a legal name and address with the operator or provider prior to posting messages on a public forum web site."

What’s happened to common sense?

Source: Drudgereport.com

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