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If I may I would like to let you know a secret. The "police" have the real names of every person and or their address even if they have 5 different screen names or 50.It is a secret way to monitor us without us knowing it.....Its real spyware you cant remove....
Great! Although it comes 20 years too late. This should have been instituted with the beginnings of the internet itself in the US.
People have been posing as others for illegal purposes far too long. It is about time people be held accountable for their actions. Even their "online" actions.
Just another example of a prima donna state legislator trying to get publicity. Existing law already covers it:
§ 529 of the California Penal Code:
Every person who falsely personates another in either his private or official capacity, and in such assumed character either:
1. Becomes bail or surety for any party in any proceeding whatever, before any court or officer authorized to take such bail or surety;
2. Verifies, publishes, acknowledges, or proves, in the name of another person, any written instrument, with intent that the same may be recorded, delivered, or used as true; or,
3. Does any other act whereby, if done by the person falsely personated, he might, in any event, become liable to any suit or prosecution, or to pay any sum of money, or to incur any charge, forfeiture, or penalty, or whereby any benefit might accrue to the party personating, or to any other person;
Is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
For those of you who remember the chat rooms of earlier internet....everyone had a screenname and was much more transparent than they are today. After pictures and social sites came on the scene, people tell much more about themselves. They are more personally known and vulnerable. So, impersonating a screen name identity today is a big deal and can really hurt people both socially and in their careers.
I hate strict laws having to govern the internet, but when a few can't seem to govern themselves, thus putting everyone else at risk, the government has no choice.
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