The Strangest Online Political Challenges of 2007

destinyland writes "Blorgable has a list the year's ten strangest online political moments arguing that 2007 was the year digital identities started encroaching into the culture. While the U.S. Senate was busy fighting cartoon-related digital terrorism with 'The Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act of 2007,' Ann Coulter's web page ended up 'mistakenly' announcing her retirement after someone hacked it! But the unpredictable changes were sometimes deadly serious. Even the mainstream media noticed 'the ghosts of MySpace' — those U.S. soldiers whose web pages ultimately outlived them."

Stephen Colbert for President!

[Gertlex]

I personally found the Facebook group that sprung up supporting Stephen Colbert's presidential candidacy to be, mayhaps not strange, but certainly "rad," and a bit outrageous. It gained 1 million group members in under 10 days (and peaked at 1.5 million around the time that Colbert called it quits).

Fuck you, Boston

[Anonymous Coward]

OK, the subject might not appear to have anything to do with the story, but it does. One of the items on the list was the Boston ATHF "bomb" threat. (Really. I'm not sure what that has to do with the web, but it's one of the ten.)

Anyway, apparently in response to the bombing, Senator Ted Kennedy (known for, among other things, killing someone while driving drunk) has drafted legislation which would make placing items that are mistaken for bombs a felony, with a 10-25 year sentence.

So, fuck you Boston, for trying to make it illegal to place something that someone else manages to mistake as a bomb, no matter how obvious it is that it wasn't. (That's right. Even without intent. If someone mistakes it for a bomb, and you get 10 years minimum in a federal prison.)

I know a state can't leave the Union, but can the rest of the states kick them out? Or at the very least Boston? I know I'd feel safer if the Gay State wasn't part of the Union...