MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2011 Regular Session
To: Judiciary, Division B
By: Senator(s) Powell
AN ACT TO BAN TOPIX.COM IN MISSISSIPPI; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. The cyber-crime division of the Office of the Mississippi Attorney General shall investigate and, if appropriate, prosecute, complaints made by Mississippi citizens against anonymous postings on Internet websites. Only a person who is the subject of an anonymous posting, or the parent, guardian or conservator of a minor or incompetent subject of an anonymous posting, shall have standing to file a complaint under the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2011.