One of the things I love about this law as proposed (and I love this law as proposed), is how this law can’t do what its designed to do. Rather, this law as written ends up putting members of SocJus at risk while theoretically protecting the rights of ordinary citizens to assemble freely on the Internet.
[…] Unless I’m reading the law wrong, all Rice would have to do is claim “substantial emotional distress” to trigger the new federal law enforcement and prosecutorial assets POTEA demands into action in order to protect Anne Rice from online abuse. I assume POTEA applies here, and Harper will be the first person arrested, tried, convicted, and incarcerated under POTEA when it is signed into law.
What about Brad Wardell, who had reporters and editors of SocJus propaganda websites and their respective online armies fall upon him, only for the allegations made against him to be dismissed with prejudice. Does he get to use POTEA against the people irresponsibly reporting untruth as fact, as well as the editors who allowed untruth to be published as fact? He certainly suffered substantial emotional distress at the hands of SocJus’s Ministry of Truth.
– Todd Wohling writing ‘Why I love the POTEA Anti-Harassment Law’ 😉
Naïf. Does not understand Marxist power. The law is only to be applied to those that are not part of the club.
If causing “substantial emotional distress” is enough to merit action by the Sword of State then all the Founders (yes all of them) would have been arrested.
Their writings were designed to cause “substantial emotional distress” in their opponents – and they made no distinction between philosophical debate and personal abuse.
Polite tactful people who do not cause “profound emotional distress” have no need of the First Amendment.
Which government department is “Socjus” supposed to be?
Seriously Ted?
Oh yes, our Department of Justice would happily investigate Social Justice Warriors. But first, they must develop the flying pigs they will need to storm the SJW castles in the air.
Fortunately, the forces against social justice live on the ground, so they can be dealt with without the flying pigs.
Ellen, the Police have had helicopters for some time, so the flying pigs will be easy to supply. However, the cloud-castles tend to move all over the place, and are impervious to radar, so they’ll be very hard to find. How else do you think that clouds have been able to keep their silver linings?
Perry, will you please ask Mr Illuminatus if he is available to give a talk on GamerGate in August? I ask on the basis that if I can’t keep up with this crap then others won’t be able to either. If Mr Illuminatus is not available can you suggest a stand in? Yourself perhaps?
I live in Rep. Clark’s district. I just called her office to express my displeasure over this preposterous legislation and demanded that she withdraw it immediately. So I guess that takes care of that. 🙂