TIME reports on a New York State Assembly proposal that would ban anonymous comments from websites. Identical bills S 6779 and A 8688 would require any New York-based web administrators to "upon request remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name and home address are accurate." The Electronic Frontier Foundation says the bills would violate free speech and that anonymous posts protect users against fear of retaliation and social ostracism or "merely preserve as much of one's privacy as possible."
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