Arizona Bill Could Criminalize Trolling

[kandrathe]

Well who can blame them for trying? They know that every ridiculous privacy breaking anti-piracy laws get passed.
The only thing missing is a few big multinationals that say they loose money because of this....if they find those you will have a new law in no-time.

It seems to get bi-partisan support here, and not related to money. It's like the crime bills. Who is not for stopping crime? That is the problem. They are presented in such a way as to all be "Stop XYZ Abuse and Endangerment ACT of 20XX". A vote against the bill will be crafted as a vote for "Abuse and Endangerment" at the next election cycle.

Up until the citizenry get angry because their child just got tossed in prison for calling someone a bad name, or for sending their SO a risque photo from their iphone.

Cyber-bullying is a problem, but criminalizing 90% of internet behavior is not going to resolve the issue. My bigger fear is that we have 1000's of legislators passing crappy laws in the States (let alone the Federal Congress), and the SCOTUS only has 9 shovels to dig us out. Before long you know what we'll be covered in.