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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Proposed NY ban on anonymous posts comes under fire

Add anti-cyberbullying advocates to the growing list of critics who don't like proposed New York state legislation that would strip some people of their online anonymity.
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May 24, 2012

  Proposed NY ban on anonymous posts comes under fire
Add anti-cyberbullying advocates to the growing list of critics who don't like proposed New York state legislation that would strip some people of their online anonymity.

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  Anonymous attacks Justice Dept., nabbing 1.7GB of data
In a new hack into the U.S. Department of Justice's Web site, Anonymous claims to have grabbed "lots of shiny things such as internal emails, and the entire database dump."

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