Tennessee does it again! link

Tennessee residents: Come July 1, 2011, the state may punish you with jail time or fines should you “transmit or display an image” online — social networks such as Facebook and Twitter included — that has the possibility to “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” to anyone who sees it.

The state of Tennessee amended Tennessee Code Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 of its harassment law, which was previously focused on malicious person-to-person communication, to apply to anyone transmitting potentially offensive images on the web.

The exact language of the law now reads:

(a) A person commits an offense who intentionally:

(4) Communicates with another person or transmits or displays an image in a manner in which there is a reasonable expectation that the image will be viewed by the victim by [by telephone, in writing or by electronic communication] without legitimate purpose:

(A) (i) With the malicious intent to frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress; or

(ii) In a manner the defendant knows, or reasonably should know, would frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to a similarly situated person of reasonable sensibilities; and

(B) As the result of the communication, the person is frightened, intimidated or emotionally distressed.

No electronic communication is safe under the new law, as subsections have been added to included images shared via social networks where the victim could possibly see it. The bill now includes language that requires social networking sites to hand over the offending materials to the government if there’s a warrant or court order or if the person who posted the images provides consent.

The vague nature of Tennessee’s amended harassment law has many calling it unconstitutional, including UCLA School of Law professor Eugene Volokh.

Volokh describes several behaviors that will soon be illegal:

“If you’re posting a picture of someone in an embarrassing situation — not at all limited to, say, sexually themed pictures or illegally taken pictures — you’re likely a criminal unless the prosecutor, judge, or jury concludes that you had a ‘legitimate purpose.’
“Likewise, if you post an image intended to distress some religious, political, ethnic, racial, etc. group, you too can be sent to jail if governments decisionmaker thinks your purpose wasn’t ‘legitimate.’ Nothing in the law requires that the picture be of the ‘victim,’ only that it be distressing to the ‘victim.’
“The same is true even if you didn’t intend to distress those people, but reasonably should have known that the material — say, pictures of Mohammed, or blasphemous jokes about Jesus Christ, or harsh cartoon insults of some political group — would ’cause emotional distress to a similarly situated person of reasonable sensibilities.’
“And of course the same would apply if a newspaper or TV station posts embarrassing pictures or blasphemous images on its site.”

The amendment was passed May 18, signed into law May 30 by Governor Bill Haslam and will go into effect July 1.

This is not Tennessee’s first foray into controversial digital legislation. The digitally-conscious-but-not-exactly-savvy state previously made it illegal to share passwords to sites such as Netfix.

[via Ars Technica]

I can understand this one. The other won't have a very long lifespan, though.

Fortunately for me, I do not reside there and I dont have a social network account.


More than 20 years ago, during a school exercise to check how we may fare in a job interview, some of my classmates said that my face was frightening. One of them even dubbed me a killer.

I laughed a lot on that one, but they were very serious.

Did you end up having the swastika tattoo on your forehead removed with a laser?

I suppose that exchanging pictures about some late 19th century French painters will be banned.

Mainly thinking about Courbet's "L'origine du monde" (Absolutely NSFW even on Wikipedia) or Ingres' "Le bain turc"

No tatoo whatsoever.

I think it was my look that did it (black hair, black eyes, tall and a bit on the muscular side, no very smiling).

Still the same with just more years and a few more pounds.

wow, that's one of Courbet's paintings that I've never seen.
j/k, when I think of someone whose face is frightening and looks like a killer my default image is charles manson.

I get that a lot.

You do have those Manson eyes - lol.

Was there a jail break recently? ;)

...and yet, Amish beard.

Meanwhile, in Kentucky, motorists were warned that Zombies were ahead and to expect delays accordingly. The powers that be shut down the sign and warned that "they were not amused."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/...y-highway.html

I wonder how Gravdigr is doing? :eek:

He has a lot of work: putting these creatures back under a double footfootfoot.


(6 feet under)

Not new news, but new to me.


http://www.npr.org/2010/12/01/131698...d-alters-brain

Hmmm...

Eat a potato chip, go to rehab.

So simple, yet so complex.

It's a special day for those who don't like pi.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13906169

Breast milk sprayed at cops in alleged drunken assault by Ohio woman

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Oh great. A teacher no less. :eyebrow:

Good job
 

It sounds so cool,and be careful our body...

Just so cool and seriously this things

The fact that she spritzed a cop bothers me less than the fact that she is a breastfeeding mother who got drunk. Stupid bitch.

This cow belongs to my buddy's cousin in Ireland:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/udder-geniu...132759524.html


http://www.irishcentral.com/news/-Gr...124099109.html

... and I thought they had such long tongues so that they could ...


C'mon, have you ever tried picking your nose with a hoof?

You can blow your nose, and you can blow your boss, but you can't blow your bosses nose

Very weird. For star gazing interested parties.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...n-from-hawaii/

It's a cover-up I tell you! The government just launched that missile to distract people from noticing the alien invasion. Have you noticed that all the stores are out of tinfoil? Have you noticed that sometimes you put two socks in the washer but only one comes out of the dryer? What about rechargeable batteries? Have you noticed that after a while they no longer "keep their charge?"

It's pretty obvious to me what's going on...:eyebrow:

I have extra boxes of tin foil in the garage in case of the invasion.:tinfoil:

mine mysteriously disappeared and were replaced by exact duplicates...

Where the hell are you guys getting tinfoil? Do they even make it anymore? No. No they don't.

This isn't weird news, but where else to put it?

Curb Your Child (I love the part about possessing 'the look.' My dad gave 'the look' and we behaved. Simple.)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/0...html?hpt=hp_c2

Oh yes. My father was the same.

My brother says that his 2-years old son is difficult. Yet, when the 'monster' is either with my mother or myself, he is very nice. He tried once and only once to hit me in the face. Retaliation was swift and imediate : one spank on the butt. Hard enough to sting. He never tried that again. Now, when I tell him something, he listens.

When he is home with his parents, his mother yells at him nearly every time he moves. To her he should be a rag doll she can put away whenever she wants.

Just found this one.

http://www.videobash.com/photo_show/...-kid-sign-6990

Looks like a good idea, no ?

Add in a drum set, and yeah! :)

"I'm your ice cream man
Shoot me as I'm passing by..."

http://www.whiotv.com/news/28527938/detail.html

Calif. woman Catherine Kieu Becker cut off husband's penis, put it in garbage disposal
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ORLY?

"Now honey, don't get snippy."

"I'll show you snippy!"

Please don't touch my strainer....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523

Near my house.

http://www.wtoc.com/story/15078207/g...till-out-there

Austrian Man Wins Right To Wear Pasta Strainer In License Photo

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011...g?t=1310588549

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Cleanup In Lane Three
Hmm, I wonder about the context of the word "disturbed"

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Victoria Cross?

I guess if you're going to ball in a pub(l)ic pool, you deserve a medal...

"... dozens of witnesses, including children, watched" and "felt disturbed" for 30 minutes :rolleyes:

Connorsville Indiana is infamous for being the Dilaudid capitol of the midwest.

maybe they were high.

OK....just what have folks been eating in Australia?


ROCKHAMPTON, Australia - A man from the Royal Australian Air Force suffered life-threatening third-degree burns after a portaloo exploded Monday at an airport Down Under -- an incident connected to an ongoing US-led military exercise in the area, The Courier-Mail reported.Officials believe the man was using the portable toilet (also known as a port-a-potty) at Rockhampton Airport, in the state of Queensland, when he lit a cigarette. "There was some sort of explosion," a Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said. "He suffered burns to his head, face, arms, chest and airways."

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/offb...#ixzz1TL5O91bX

Methane, would be my guess.

Or somebody illegally dumping paint thinner in the porta potty instead of paying the fee to dispose of it legally at teh hazardous waste place.

When they jacked me up with dilauded for my surgery I was very happy but not at all horny.

Circumcision ban to be stricken from SF ballot


I wonder if there would have been a religious exemption.

I'm not certain this is true, but here it is:

Wallabies need N.A.

I'm gonna vote no. Wallabies are not going to make them into perfect geometric shapes :right:

FOR. THE. WIN.

More at http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-1...?section=world

That is beyond teh awesome. Great find ZG.

This is funny. I am going to have to try a few of these shots.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-planking.html

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/artic...#ixzz1VNwdJWb5

In French, I'd say she's digging her grave with her teeth. Is there a similar expression in English?

Hahahahahaaaaa. Sure you will Michelle. Sure you will. Singlehandedly, too, I bet.

Maroon.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/18/news....htm?hpt=hp_t2

Digging her grave with a spoon.

Ciel, mon mari!

Two-dollar a gallon gas is people!

:lol2:

Man goes in for circumcision, wakes up without penis
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