Illinois Senate Bill 1614, sponsored by Sen. Ira Silverstein, from
Legiscan:
Creates the Internet Posting Removal Act. Provides that a web site
administrator shall, upon request, remove any posted comments posted by
an anonymous poster unless the anonymous poster agrees to attach his or
her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal
name, and home address are accurate. Effective 90 days after becoming
law.
Here is the top comment on the site:
We may have an early candidate for Worst Illinois Senate Bill of 2013.
First of all, Illinois does not have jurisdiction over the entirety of
the internet. Illinois has jurisdiction over Illinois. Geographic
location isn't all that important to the web hosting industry - for the
most part, a datacenter in Chicago is just as good as one in, say,
Dallas or Seattle. This means that the only thing this bill would
actually succeed in doing is driving internet-related business (both
individual online businesses, as well as the infrastructure that
supports them, ie, webhosting companies and datacenters) out of the
state.
Good job representing our interests there, Ira.
More importantly, though, this is plainly unconstitutional. It's
absolutely embarrassing that any elected representative of US citizens
would suggest that there should be a
host of state-defined rules that must be met before one is allowed to
exercise their first amendment right to free speech.
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