Reply #1: "Annoying" to whom?

[JDPriestly]

I find a lot of stuff on the internet "annoying," such as the website of a certain radio personality who shall be nameless and who spouts right-wing hate rhetoric the entire day (come to think of it, there is more than one). How can I be certain that these radio "personalities" are posting under their own names? Also, am I supposed to report this to the federal prosecutor's office, the FBI? Aren't they going to get a lot of complaints? How are they going to decide which ones to prosecute? Will they apply an ideological litmus test? Civil damages maybe, but criminal penalties?

I receive hundreds of annoying spam e-mails every day, but (Thank you Yahoo. I'm deeply grateful.), my e-mail service provider directs them to my spam account and I deep six them regularly without even seeing their ugly little addresses. Am I failing to do my civic duty by ridding my computer of these annoying messages without reporting them?

If annoying people on the internet is a crime, how about annoying TV shows? Shouldn't they be considered crimes also? I found the TV so annoying about five years ago that I pretty much stopped watching it. Not only did we cancel our cable subscription, but our rabbit ears are no longer properly attached.

Also, how can I know whether I am actually annoying someone. Do they have to prove that I had the intent to annoy? Without more information, this is just one of those nutty laws that will be a nightmare to enforce -- like sodomy laws.