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Related: About this forumIndiana Senate criminalizes social-media photos if intended to harm businesses
Fort Wayne Journal GazetteINDIANAPOLIS A move to shield agricultural operations from unwanted video or photos morphed Friday into a bill that could make it a crime to post embarrassing photos of any business on social media.
A final version of Senate Bill 373 would make it a misdemeanor to commit an act including taking surreptitious photos or video on real property with the intent to harm any business operating on that property.
We ought not put people in jail for taking a picture, said Sen. Tim Lanane, D-Anderson. Especially if the picture is true.
Other Democrats said a person could be prosecuted for simply jumping up and down screaming in a restaurant about bad soup. Or for taking a video of cockroaches crawling across the floor and then posting it, or crafting scathing online reviews about a business.
A final version of Senate Bill 373 would make it a misdemeanor to commit an act including taking surreptitious photos or video on real property with the intent to harm any business operating on that property.
We ought not put people in jail for taking a picture, said Sen. Tim Lanane, D-Anderson. Especially if the picture is true.
Other Democrats said a person could be prosecuted for simply jumping up and down screaming in a restaurant about bad soup. Or for taking a video of cockroaches crawling across the floor and then posting it, or crafting scathing online reviews about a business.
Republicans want to criminalize the 1st Amendment.
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Indiana Senate criminalizes social-media photos if intended to harm businesses (Original Post)
LiberalFighter
Apr 2013
OP
It's an ongoing toss up about which state is the most fucked up and unfit for human habitation. n/t
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#1
Well, then we've got Nebraska too ... It's gonna be a 3-way tie, I bet! LOL, and
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#11
I bet in sparsely populated areas a lot of weird stuff goes on, but Mississippi might be in the lead!
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#14
Can't show abuse of animals by corporations...AND want to make a bet some Judge will
diabeticman
Apr 2013
#2
People food! Cat food improvement! Save humanity, bite off a piece! 535 congressmen
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#13
RKP5637
(67,087 posts)1. It's an ongoing toss up about which state is the most fucked up and unfit for human habitation. n/t
Bake
(21,977 posts)6. My money was on Mississippi, but now I'm not so sure!
Indiana is making a strong case for itself!
Bake
RKP5637
(67,087 posts)9. Kansas wants to get into the act too!
Bake
(21,977 posts)10. Kansas has the Phelps bunch! It's a contender!!
Bake
RKP5637
(67,087 posts)11. Well, then we've got Nebraska too ... It's gonna be a 3-way tie, I bet! LOL, and
then we've got Oklahoma too, can't leave them out!
Bake
(21,977 posts)12. On the other hand, does Kansas do THIS???
RKP5637
(67,087 posts)14. I bet in sparsely populated areas a lot of weird stuff goes on, but Mississippi might be in the lead!
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)2. Can't show abuse of animals by corporations...AND want to make a bet some Judge will
interrupt this law to mean one can't photo or video Police in the "business" of "protecting" citizens.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)3. If the business is doing no wrong, it has nothing to hide.
Right?! Right?!
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)8. If businesses are people, what does that make Soylent Green??
RKP5637
(67,087 posts)13. People food! Cat food improvement! Save humanity, bite off a piece! 535 congressmen
can't be wrong, they voted for it!!!
PopeOxycontinI
(176 posts)4. So much...
for their "free market" Gawd when it counts against a business. Typical repuke hypocrisy.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)5. Someone will have to take it to court and sue the crap out of the business that tries that BS.
Bake
(21,977 posts)7. Hard to see how that one passes Constitutional scrutiny
Strict srutiny, to be exact.
Bake
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)15. That bill failed, luckily.
But that certainly is the way this country is going. Ag gag and other "gag all" bills are popping up in many states.