Posted on 02/06/2021 6:06:46 AM PST by MtnClimber
A new bill revitalizes the war on terror's favorite slogan in service of forcing tech companies to turn over more user data to the government. The "See Something, Say Something Online Act," introduced by Sen. Joe Manchin (D–W.Va.) and co-sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R–Texas), is the latest attack on the federal communications law known as Section 230 as well as freedom of speech and online privacy.
The legislation says any interactive computer service provider—that means social media giants, small blogs, podcast hosting services, app stores, consumer review platforms, independent political forums, crowdfunding and Patreon-style sites, dating apps, newsletter services, and much more—will lose Section 230 protections if they fail to report any known user activity that might be deemed "suspicious."
"Suspicious" content is defined as any post, private message, comment, tag, transaction, or "any other user-generated content or transmission" that government officials later determine "commits, facilitates, incites, promotes, or otherwise assists the commission of a major crime." Major crimes are defined as anything involving violence, domestic, or international terrorism, or a "serious drug offense."
For each suspicious post, services must submit a Suspicious Transmission Activity Report (STAR) within 30 days, providing the user's name, location, and other identifying information, as well as any relevant metadata.
Those submitting the user surveillance reports would henceforth be barred from talking about or even acknowledging the existence of them. STARs would also be exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
I am sure this won’t be used to go after opposition to the socialist elitists.
The man and the dog are working together. Period.
#WalkAway from both the Dems and the GOP.
PING!
1984 big brother is watching you.....
Another mechanism for shutting down free speech.
If you say something the Lefties don’t like, report it.
Un
Frakin
Real.
The greatest threat to our security, freedoms, and national security is the damn Left.
Unless it's BLM or anti-fa, then it's A-OK.
When the government does it, it’s censorship. It’s directly unconstitutional.
Somewhat related, there was a Business section front-page story about Telegram and similar encrypted services in the Paper of Record Thursday.
They did it as if it were two people talking to each other so that they could call us all the nasty names they love to call us without being accused of calling us those names. After all, it was only the fictitious people in the article calling us those names.
Might be good to get us all in one place where we can’t recruit others, one said.
[The greatest threat to our security, freedoms, and national security is the damn Left.]
OK, they gave those people names. Might be real people. Is that better or worse?
Your computer is monitoring you, your banks are monitoring you, there’s cameras on every street corner and neighbors and family members are glad to turn you in.
Yep. Be assured, there are those moderate DEMs and RINOs that will and are willingly walking this country into to utter disparity, doom, and destruction. America will never be the same, for sure, not as I grew up to.
Funny how that started for people to report suspicious raghead activity - and probably birthed the P.C. movement that we have now where it is just wrong to profile ragheads and think that they might do things that ragheads are known to do to infidels . . . like blowing them to bits while telling everyone that would listen about the Aloha Snackbar!!! All for their god Allan and his nephew Moe.
A Navel Base I am familiar with send an email to all it’s employees asking them to self report if they participated in the January 6th “peaceful protests.”
Fascism.
Right there.
I’d say let’s “fight” it, but that would be a reportable instance of a potential call to violence.
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