Senator Tries to Ban Internet Commenters

Illinois Sen. Ira Silverstein, who represents parts of Niles, Morton Grove and Skokie, introduced, then withdrew, a bill requiring websites to force anonymous commenters to reveal themselves on request, or get deleted.

  On Feb. 13, Illinois Sen. Ira Silverstein introduced a bill aimed at limiting comments posted online, especially those negative in nature. His Internet Posting Removal Act would require administrators of websites, social media or Internet forums to remove postings from anonymous commenters upon request, unless those anonymous commenters posted their true names, home addresses and IP addresses. The complete text of the bill can be found here.  It does not provide any specifics as to who can request the removal of an anonymous posting. The Chicago Tribune's Eric Zorn reached Silverstein Thursday, and Silverstein told him he is pulling the bill, according to the Huffington Post. Silverstein did not immediately return a phone call placed to …

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smallbizman

8:27 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

As a business owner i know of what you speak.You can't always please everyone and some people can't be pleased at all.But it is there right to speak out if they are not happy with the service or treatment.Sen Silverstein took an oath to uphold the constitution.But because somebody said something bad about him he's mad.Grow up you wimp.So here we are again if the Senator doesn't like it take …   more ›