If you annoy me...

[elfs]

If you post anonymously and annoy me, I shall have your ass tossed in jail:

Whoever utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person who receives the communications shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (U.S. Code, Sec 113)

Nah, I wouldn't do that. Even the anonymous posters in this blog are usually cool. And I value free speech just a little too much. Harrassment I deal with privately (as in, "I have the managers of the private property known as LiveJournal deal with you") and threats, naturally, will be taken seriously. But "annoy"? How does one legislate and prosecute being "annoying?" Can we send Adam Sandler to jail?

There's probably some legal definition of "annoy" that has nothing to do with Adam Sandler.