Annoy someone online--two years in jail?

The word Stalker is probably a better description. Difficult to monitor and control. Here the word annoy is dangerous as the article say. Another useless law, will be shot full of holes by semi decent lawyer
 
Stupid laws by stupid people, who ride the global gravy train only politicians can get onto. They are sometimes as dumb as bricks but have the power to make laws that affect things they have 0% knowledge of, like the Internet.

Our minister on the other hand does very little to nothing, which is equally as crappy as what is mentioned in this thread.
 
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
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- 'Atlas Shrugged' (Ayn Rand)

In other words, a (say) corrupt US administration can't legally put their critics away for criticising them. But the more you make it nearly impossible to even live without breaking some or other law, the more options you have for using "selective law enforcement" to put away your critics "for other crimes". (Hence there is no such thing as a "useless law" either, pupa.)

These people are not just 'stupid people passing stupid laws about things they don't know anything about'. They know exactly what they are doing; if this weren't the case, they would not have deliberately used a "rider" to pass the law *.

* rider: "A provision, usually controversial and unlikely to pass on its own merits, that is attached to a popular bill in the hopes that it will “ride” to passage on the back of the popular bill."
 
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