Comments on: Congress May Outlaw Hyperlinking

By: Random Yak

Random Yak — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:30:21 +0000

Can Anything Good Come out of Washington?...

Some days, it's hard to tell.For example, a bill currently before Congress would ban both internet gambling websites (oh, yes, precious...the nasty websiteses cannot spam us if they no longer exist...) and hyperlinks to internet gamblin...

By: Brandon Jaynes

Brandon Jaynes — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:13:13 +0000

You're going to jail, James.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:13:18 +0000

Bryan: It's not misleading at all. If they can outlaw hyperlinking to a video poker site, they can outlaw hyperlinking anything. They're not targetting spammers--who put stuff up on others' websites without permission--but site owners.

By: garry swaffar

garry swaffar — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:27:22 +0000

For the gambling sites, I would step out of character to support a large gov't program to track down the parties responsible, shoot them, bring them back to life, hang them until dead, re-animate them and then burn them at the stake.

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:10:58 +0000

I think your headline is a little misleading. Are you angling for a job at Associated Press? ;-)

By: NIF

NIF — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:02:42 +0000

Here's why... Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... Yes, it's a Wednesday And "The ExpressPay stored-value card system used by FedEx Kinko's is vulnerable to attack"...

By: Yhoi

Yhoi — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:54:25 +0000

Its great to see a patriotic, free market conservative Republican like Bob Goodlatte is doing his best to increase government intervention in the marketplace and discourage entrepreneurialism.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:49:36 +0000

One gambling link? I get hundreds a week trying to poke their noses into my blog comments! Were anyone to suggest a nuclear attack on those guys, I'd think it underkill.

Luckily, I've got a pretty good program to defeat comment spam, but they still sneak through every now and then.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:42:58 +0000

I already delete online gambling links. I get them all the time as trackback spam.

Maybe if this goes through I'll let up, just to see how far ~~these idiots~~ federal prosecutors are willing to push the envelope.