The conservative Civitas Institute calls a blog libel bill the "bad bill of the week."

Executive Director Francis De Luca calls an attempt to expand civil and criminal libel laws to cover Internet communication "The Gossip Girl Bill" after the popular TV show in which students anonymously post rumors. 

The negative public reaction to Sen. Goss’ bill was so universal that left-wing and right-wing groups denounced it equally. Basically, SB 46 would treat blogs and electronic communications under different libel and slander criteria from print or news media. It would criminalize and allow lawsuits to be brought against any Web site, blog, forum or newsgroup that posted allegedly false information.

The "bad bill of the week" is a new weekly column by the think tank.