Tracey Dalzell Walsh reports:
Two telecom companies say Mississippi enacted an unconstitutional law that prohibits electronic “spoofing”: using devices that disguise the calling phone number, so caller ID systems cannot tell where the call is coming from.
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The plaintiffs say that only Congress or the Federal Communications Commission have the power to impose such sweeping requirements on interstate phone calls. Calling it a 1st Amendment violation, they say the Act “violates the rights of potentially millions of PSTN [public switched telephone network] and World Wide Web users to offer protected speech, including the right to do so anonymously.”
Read more on Courthouse News. You can read the complaint here.