# Cyber stalking/annoyance unlawful?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyber-stalking-annoyance-unlawful/339330>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 10, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyber-stalking-annoyance-unlawful/339330 "2006-01-10T17:13:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyber-stalking-annoyance-unlawful/339330/1 "2006-01-10T17:13:27Z")

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From [this link.](http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6024695.html?tag=nl.e589)

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> Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.

A good law? I dont know everything about this, but on the face I just dont get this. The internet is not a US owned property, how do you enforce something like this in a world wide web? Besides which, since when are you not allowed to be anon on the web? Isnt that the whole point?

I really just want to know what intrest group pushed for this? What exactly are we trying to get to here? Are we protecting somebody with this law?