borndead1
15 years ago
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/10/tennessee-law-bans-distressing-images-opens-your-facebook-inb/ 

Congratulations Tennessee! Governor Bill Haslam has put your state in the national spotlight and, for once, it has nothing to do with Bonnaroo or how bad the Titans are. The republican executive of the state signed a ban on "distressing images" into law last week that we're sure constitutional lawyers are going to have a field day with. Anyone who sends or posts an image online (and yes, that includes TwitPics) that they "reasonably should know" would "cause emotional distress" could face several months in jail and thousands of dollars in fines. The best part? Anyone who stumbles across the image is a viable "victim" under the law and the government doesn't even have to prove any harmful intent. So, Tennessee residents who aren't cautious enough using Google image search could get a few people in trouble. Another, and perhaps more perturbing, part of the same bill also seeks to circumvent restrictions on obtaining private messages and information from social networking sites without a search warrant. We give it about a month before this gets struck down on obvious grounds that it's unconstitutional.



Another victory for the party of small government!
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rfenst
15 years ago
Vague.
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wheelrite
15 years ago
People in Tennesee don't have indoor plumbing or computers

I doubt this will be an issue,,
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dpnewell
15 years ago
^Good thing I'm not from Tennessee, Wheel, as I find your avitar "distressing", HA!
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wheelrite
15 years ago

^Good thing I'm not from Tennessee, Wheel, as I find your avitar "distressing", HA!

dpnewell wrote:



Bro, I'm a Texan,,,
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wheelrite
15 years ago
A Smart Phone in Tennesee is one that takes Food Stamps...
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tailgater
15 years ago

Bro, I'm a Texan,,,

wheelrite wrote:



So we should use smaller words?
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JadeRose
15 years ago

So we should use smaller words?

tailgater wrote:




No...speak Mexican.
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JadeRose
15 years ago
I've had several chances to live in the South. I passed every time.....*shudder*
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dpnewell
15 years ago
Can't seem to find too much about this bill, except for little one page articles, which for the most part are copies from another sites.

I checked the link Borndead provided, and found the following comment:

"the bill was written by a democrat. The only 8 votes against this bill were from republicans. Youre complaining about a guy who is the GOVERNOR who DIDNT WRITE OR PASS THE LAW."

Is this true? Does anyone know who actually wrote this thing? Did the governor have to sign this as it was veto proof? Is this an attempt by liberal bloggers and opinion rags to blame someone else for what was done by their own? Anyone actually have any FACTS on this one? Thanks.
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dpnewell
15 years ago

Bro, I'm a Texan,,,

wheelrite wrote:



Dude, I know that. It was late and I thought the article implied that if a Tenn resident was offended by your postings, they could come after you. Duh. Got to stop posting when I'm half asleep.
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wheelrite
15 years ago

Dude, I know that. It was late and I thought the article implied that if a Tenn resident was offended by your postings, they could come after you. Duh. Got to stop posting when I'm half asleep.

dpnewell wrote:



🇨🇮
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rfenst
15 years ago

Can't seem to find too much about this bill, except for little one page articles, which for the most part are copies from another sites.

...

Anyone actually have any FACTS on this one? Thanks.

dpnewell wrote:



http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/HB0300.pdf 


I checked the link Borndead provided, and found the following comment:

"the bill was written by a democrat. The only 8 votes against this bill were from republicans. Youre complaining about a guy who is the GOVERNOR who DIDNT WRITE OR PASS THE LAW."

Is this true? Does anyone know who actually wrote this thing? Did the governor have to sign this as it was veto proof? Is this an attempt by liberal bloggers and opinion rags to blame someone else for what was done by their own?

dpenwell wrote:



Form a First Amendment/Freedom of Speech perspective, I don't care who is politicizing this. That's not the point worthy of discussion here, IMO, unless one solely wants to complain and throw mud about R's and D's; and/or so-called conservatives and liberals.

What is worthy of discussion here, IMO, is: the constitutionality of the law; if the law is constitutional, whether it will have a 'chilling effect", and/or if it is constitutional, whether it can be applied to those who otherwise have no connection with Tennessee.
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Brewha
15 years ago
The original news article was supposed to say “dis-dress’n”, as in taken your clothes off.
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dstieger
15 years ago

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That's not the point worthy of discussion here, IMO, unless one solely wants to complain and throw mud about R's and D's; and/or so-called conservatives and liberals.

rfenst wrote:



Uh....been a long, long, long time since 'worthy of discussion' was a criteria for posting anything here...ESPECIALLY in Politics Forum
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