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Comment This doesn't do me any good. (Score 2) 173

Well, that's too bad, because I for one am not in the possession of fourth amendment protections. So as much as I think this is a wise and important verdict - irrespective of all the poisonous trees and parallel constructions - the US to me represents a clear and present danger to my privacy and my liberty.
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Submission + - Lying Online No Longer a Crime in RI (yahoo.com)

stevegee58 writes: In an outbreak of common sense, Rhode Island repealed an obscure law enacted in 1989 that made it a crime to lie in online postings. Violations of this law carried a maximum penalty of $500 and up to a year in prison.

From the article:

""This law made virtually the entire population of Rhode Island a criminal," said Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union. "When this bill was enacted nobody had any idea what its ramifications were. Telling fibs may be wrong, but it shouldn't be criminal activity."

The law aimed to stop fraud, con artists and scammers, but also outlawed the "transmission of false data" regardless of whether liars stood to profit from their deception or not."

Comment Re:Minimum Sentences (Score 1) 147

There will not be a minimum sentence. Just a minumum for the maximum sentence. Difficult concept, but the idea is that each member state will have a maximum prison sentence of at least 2 years. Judges will be free to sentence someone to a month, if they so choose. Member States can also choose to have a maximum prison sentence of more than 2 years, but not less than 2 years.

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