Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011
In the wake of the prank-calling of Gov. Scott Walker by a journalist posing as conservative billionaire David Koch, a pair of Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature have proposed a bill that would actually make prank calls illegal.
That was the call in which Walker joked about “stereotypical blue-caller workers,” revealed that he had considered planting troublemakers among the pro-labor protesters in Wisconsin, and generally buddied up to the eccentric (and fake) version of Koch that was on the line.
The Badger Herald reports on the details of the bill (note the strange nod in the first line to “legitimate uses” of spoofing):
“While use of spoofing is said to have some legitimate uses, it can also be used to frighten, harass and potentially defraud,” Lazich and Honadel said in an e-mail to legislators.
Continue reading at: http://www.salon.com/news/wisconsin/index.html?story=%2Fpolitics%2Fwar_room%2F2011%2F03%2F02%2Fban_prank_calls_law
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