# New York Senate bill seeks to end anonymous internet posting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-senate-bill-seeks-to-end-anonymous-internet-posting/622986>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 24, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-senate-bill-seeks-to-end-anonymous-internet-posting/622986 "2012-05-24T18:55:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-senate-bill-seeks-to-end-anonymous-internet-posting/622986/21 "2012-05-25T17:27:24Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Big Flats is in Chemung County, right next to my hometown of Elmira (from which it was formed), and is the home of Harris Hill, known as the Soaring Capitol of the World (gliding).

Why do Americans always misspell capital?

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-senate-bill-seeks-to-end-anonymous-internet-posting/622986/22 "2012-05-25T17:32:49Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Outlawing something for being “rather unpleasant”?
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> That kinda sounds Canadian, actually.

You take that back, hoser!

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-senate-bill-seeks-to-end-anonymous-internet-posting/622986/23 "2012-05-25T18:20:58Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Why do Americans always misspell capital?

Why do Canadians always feel the need to point it out? 😃

Sorry; I had been awake for close to 60 hours when I posted that last night.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-senate-bill-seeks-to-end-anonymous-internet-posting/622986/24 "2012-05-25T18:32:44Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Why do Americans always misspell capital?

Just for the principle of the thing.

😛

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-senate-bill-seeks-to-end-anonymous-internet-posting/622986/25 "2012-05-25T20:48:16Z")

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Don’t you mean, the principal of the thing?

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-senate-bill-seeks-to-end-anonymous-internet-posting/622986/26 "2012-05-25T22:38:20Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Don’t you mean, the principal of the thing?

Well, for all intensive purposes.

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-senate-bill-seeks-to-end-anonymous-internet-posting/622986/27 "2012-06-04T03:31:19Z")

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You’ll pry my anonymous tumblr, dreamwidth, and kongregate accounts under several fictitious aliases out of my cold dead hands.

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