Comments on: “…a federal crime to visit a website after being told not to visit it”

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:15:23 +0000

I wonder how that is going to play out with trolls on blogs and other sites.

If you send a “cease and desist” letter to them and they return to your site, will they be subject to arrest?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 02:10:07 +0000

I see a new means of entrapment: a TOS that states in regular font but verbose legalese that you are not authorized to view the site, and a button that says agree and continue. No one reads TOSes, so you’re guaranteed to have a case against anyone you can lure to the site.

By: bumper

bumper — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:21:43 +0000

My initial reading of this was from the context of someone who intensely dislikes Facebook, but taken in another context…

If I rent a car from Hertz and their contract with me specifies that I can’t let anyone but those that they approve drive the car, and I let someone not approved drive it, and Hertz sends a letter to that someone and says don’t drive it and they still do. And Hertz goes to the trouble of changing the locks, but that someone goes to the trouble of making a new key and continues to use the car, still without permission of the actual owner and their contract with the renter…

So who is at fault, the owner of the car, the renter of the car or the someone, and is this just a state of mind?