Tennessee just keeps on coming with the ridiculous laws this year. Again, thanks to our wonderful governor Bill Haslam, what we can do has been limited. In an attempt to bring current laws into the 21st century, a new bill has been passed that limits what a person can post on the internet. That’s right, the internet censorship has begun.
The new law states that anyone that posts an image online that they “should reasonably know” could “cause emotional distress” to another person is subject to a fina and/or jail time. This law originally applied to someone sending material through the mail or a public venue targeted at a specific person. So, plastering the image of a man that had been decapitated all over the town that his mother lives in would have been illegal. I can follow that train of thought. But the new law applies to anyone. Anyone who sees something on the internet and is offended can site this law. I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
Tennessee, you need to get it on track. This is getting out of hand and if we don’t do something to stop it soon, the damage will be done and it will be too late to go back.
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