Jeff Jarvis points out the epitome of dumbass legislation–like we need any more examples of that in this country–that states any website would have to "require and obtain legal names and addresses for anyone who posts online… or else the services can be sued for anything false or defamatory posters say."

Read his full post. Is this what passes for "conservatism" in this country these days? That's rhetorical. We all know the answer.

Is it paranoid to think that once all websites have everyone registered, we can be all assigned a government-issued Net-ID that enables them to track what we're all saying online? Uncle Bill would say no, that wasn't paranoid at all.

Also, I agree with Jarvis that the FCC is a load of shite. Granted, that's not quite how he phrased it, but you know what I mean.

Musical Postscript: Inoffensive pop. That's hard to accomplish with my brooding ass. The New Pornographers' "The Laws Have Changed" manages it, however. Found via…well, The Laws Have Changed.

More Paranoid Postscript: I wonder what weird hits from search engines I'll get having "Pornographers" and "FCC" in the same post.

(scary noises and exeunt)