Posted on 11/16/2011 2:27:04 AM PST by autumnraine
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile at a site like Match.com. In a statement obtained by CNET that's scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, the Justice Department argues that it must be able to prosecute violations of Web sites' often-ignored, always-unintelligible "terms of service" policies. The law must allow "prosecutions based upon a violation of terms of service or similar contractual agreement with an employer or provider," Richard Downing, the Justice Department's deputy computer crime chief, will tell the U.S. Congress tomorrow. Scaling back that law "would make it difficult or impossible to deter and address serious insider threats through prosecution," and jeopardize prosecutions involving identity theft, misuse of government databases, and privacy invasions, according to Downing.
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I confess.
I lie on my facebook page.
Though I have a picture of a polar bear, as my main picture identity. I’m not really a polar bear.
Catch me, if you can!
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part 2, Chapter 3, Page 404
As GK Chesterson would agree, “When you forget the big laws (the Commandments), you don’t get freedom. You get a bunch of little laws.
They want identities so they know exactly who to intimidate for getting out of line.
Dissent and have your student loan, home loan, unemployment, food stamps, health care, etc. threatened or foot soldiers tossing cocktails through your windows.
lowbridge isnt my real name.
My real name is Elvis Presley.
And the first thing I'm going to do when I get back home to Graceland is put Lisa Marie over my knee and spank her for thinking she could sing.
Geez, does having a pic of your own hand holding a gum paste butterfly you just finished ‘painting’ count as a lie?
Does this mean I’ll be prosecuted for mentioning I have a 15-inch pecker on Match.com ?
I confess: I am neither a sling nor an arrow.
lol! That wold probably be a priority case for Holder. Unless, of course, you were black. Those cases are ‘special’ and they never get prosecuted.
If so, you could be prosecuted for not registering your ungistered weapon, sir.
At least, you better be a sir!
If so, you could be prosecuted for not registering your ungistered weapon, sir.
At least, you better be a sir!
Yes you go straight to jail where you will be very popular.
The reason we know you are lying? If you had a 15-inch pecker you would not be on match.com. You wouldn't have time. You would be answering the door.
Reminds me of the Bruce Willis movie “Surrogates”.
lowbridge, shame on you!
Elvis would be rolling over in his grave (if he were dead)!
I think Eric Holder got burned on Match.Com. The girl was supposed to be a supermodel, but she ended up being somewhat less than desirable.
I am actually good with a gun. I even got a scholarship for my marksmanship skills. I never thought I would need them for a future revolution though. I just hope the revolution comes soon so that my children won’t have to fight it. I would rather fight for them.
Fixed it.
Aren’t “terms of service” an agreement between you and the platform, i.e. Facebook? Wouldn’t Facebook have to be the one to file a complaint about you posting false info.
Come on everyone, no matter who is the nominee, WE HAVE TO GET THESE COMMIES OUT OF POWER! and possibly prosecuted for their overreaches.
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