President Bush signed into law a broad prohibition on annoying someone over the Internet. That's right it is now a federal offense punishable by imprisonment for anyone to annoy someone over the Internet.

Now what exactly in legal terms is determined to be annoying or to annoy someone? Obviously somethings annoy some individuals while not necessarily annoying another. That is exactly what civil rights groups are worried about is that this law is another broad federal law which can be manipulated to prosecute persons who are simply expressing themselves under their constitutional right to "Freedom of Speech".

This law is so broad that it will make criminals of bloggers, Internet radio personalities and many other categories of Internet users. Essentially if I were to read the post of a blogger who chose to remain anonymous they would effectively be committing a federal offense if their post annoyed me.

Why did congress allow this law to be passed? Well because the bill's sponsors hid the bill in yet another bill which provided needed funding for the Department of Justice and to provide rights for women who are victims of violence.

I am pretty certain the American Civil Liberties Union will be taking action against this draconian law because it totally violates every single Americans constitutional rights.