HB 1684 -- Missouri Political Cyberfraud Act

Sponsor:  Meiners

This bill establishes the Missouri Political Cyberfraud Act and
creates the crime of political cyberfraud, a class B misdemeanor.
A person will be guilty of this crime if he or she intentionally
deceives, defrauds, or misleads others about web sites that
support or oppose a ballot measure.  Prohibited actions include:

(1)  Intentionally diverting or redirecting access to a political
web site to another person's web site using similar domain names,
meta-tags, or other electronic measures;

(2)  Intentionally preventing or denying exit from a political
web site through the use of various electronic measures;

(3)  Registering a domain name similar to another domain name for
a political web site; and

(4)  Intentionally preventing the use of a domain name for a
political web site by registering and holding or reselling a
domain name with the intent of preventing its use.

These provisions will not apply to a domain name registrar,
registry, or registration authority.

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Last Updated October 15, 2008 at 3:10 pm