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Republican Calls For Email And IM Monitoring
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| 2/9/07
| Iain Thomson
Posted on 02/12/2007 9:12:04 AM PST by steve-b
bill introduced to the US House of Representatives would require ISPs to record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely.
The bill, dubbed the Safety Act by sponsor Lamar Smith, a republican congressman from Texas, would impose fines and a prison term of one year on ISPs which failed to keep full records....
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; Technical
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; duncanhunter; gopsucks; govwatch; nannystate; policestate; privacy; stupidparty
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posted on
02/12/2007 9:12:08 AM PST
by
steve-b
To: steve-b
lol.. tards.
Here lets see what I look at online, FR, THR, booty vote!, gmail, amd forum... pretty boring stuff...
To: steve-b
Party of Smaller Government, right....
3
posted on
02/12/2007 9:14:17 AM PST
by
highball
("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
To: steve-b
To: steve-b
Look for his ties to the storage industry.
5
posted on
02/12/2007 9:15:17 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
To: NonValueAdded
LOL you got that right !
This guy needs to buy a clue.
6
posted on
02/12/2007 9:16:08 AM PST
by
cinives
(On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
To: highball
Unbelievable. Why there isn't a revolt against this expanding government in this country blows me away.
7
posted on
02/12/2007 9:16:14 AM PST
by
dl5192
To: steve-b
I guess I better stop surfing all those porn sites!
8
posted on
02/12/2007 9:16:21 AM PST
by
stm
(Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
To: highball
Somebody tell me this is a joke. The guy is either smoking weed or trying to make a point.
9
posted on
02/12/2007 9:16:37 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: steve-b
How is this any different than requiring all telephone companies to record all conversations? Or from requiring all cable television companies from recording what is watched and when? I don't thing the War on Terror requires that kind of sacrifice yet. If there's a question about somebody, sure check out their Internet traffic. Otherwise leave these businesses alone. A little too much fascism for me.
10
posted on
02/12/2007 9:16:39 AM PST
by
rhombus
To: steve-b
And they wonder why I don't vote any more.
It is too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the ba@@@rds.
Who is John Galt?
11
posted on
02/12/2007 9:17:20 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
To: highball
"Republican" sure doesn't mean what it used to.
12
posted on
02/12/2007 9:17:52 AM PST
by
LIConFem
To: WakeUpAndVote
OK... This guy is a Republican? Scary.
13
posted on
02/12/2007 9:17:54 AM PST
by
devnull
(In a 5-4 Decision We Trust)
To: steve-b
14
posted on
02/12/2007 9:18:16 AM PST
by
dmw
(Aren't you glad you use common sense, don't you wish everybody did?)
To: steve-b
So much for the party of small government...
To: rhombus
>>How is this any different than requiring all telephone companies to record all conversations?<<
It isn't. Again, why I don't vote any more.
It's just too late.
16
posted on
02/12/2007 9:18:35 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
To: dl5192
Why there isn't a revolt against this expanding government in this country blows me away. There is. Nobody is bothering to vote for Republicans any more. Unfortunately, that isn't a cure.
17
posted on
02/12/2007 9:18:38 AM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: dl5192
"Unbelievable. Why there isn't a revolt against this expanding government in this country blows me away."Revolt?! Pfffft, far from it. People here on FR are still making red-hot posts about conservatives who were in no mood to vote Republican. We're all traitors, doncha' know?
There'll be no revolt in this country - ever.
18
posted on
02/12/2007 9:18:41 AM PST
by
T.Smith
To: Gabz
19
posted on
02/12/2007 9:19:11 AM PST
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: NonValueAdded
Look for his ties to the storage industry. Actually, my suspicions run a bit darker -- the last Congresscritter I remember as cultivating a protect-the-children rep had a name beginning with "M" and ending with "ark Foley"....
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posted on
02/12/2007 9:19:36 AM PST
by
steve-b
(It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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