Posted on 02/20/2009 6:01:36 AM PST by rabscuttle385
Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations.
The legislation, which echoes a measure proposed by one of their Democratic colleagues three years ago, would impose unprecedented data retention requirements on a broad swath of Internet access providers and is certain to draw fire from businesses and privacy advocates.
"While the Internet has generated many positive changes in the way we communicate and do business, its limitless nature offers anonymity that has opened the door to criminals looking to harm innocent children," U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said at a press conference on Thursday. "Keeping our children safe requires cooperation on the local, state, federal, and family level."
Joining Cornyn was Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who said such a measure would let "law enforcement stay ahead of the criminals."
Two bills have been introduced so far--S.436 in the Senate and H.R.1076 in the House. Each of the companion bills is titled "Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act," or Internet Safety Act.
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Fewer laws = Fewer criminals = less warehousing.
The future is uncertain. Try to buy ammunition or reloading components these days.
MORE STUPID STUFF FROM GOP, Can’t they work on something meaningful?
I calling and giving them hell!
No more money for the GOP, they are brain dead
Where is the Constitutional authority for FedGov to “protect” our kids? That is STRICTLY a family function. Oh, except that FedGov has already basically DESTROYED the family, hasn’t it? So now Cornyn and company want to finish the job? Bah!
Has anyone bothered to look at the status of the two bills at Thomas.gov?
This thing has *NO* cosponsors. It’s two dingbats, one in the House, one in the Senate.
Inflating this into “Those evil/idiot/scheming Republicans/Christian Conservatives/fascists!” is just pure demagoguery, and all of those in this thread doing so should be ashamed.
SkruYou.
That is one of the more absurd things I have seen posted on Free Republic lately. If history is any indication, the Past is strongly against you.
I invite you to take a look here and tell us all which of the regimes on the leaderboard you consider "right", politically, as the numbers tallied pretty much define "authoritarian threat".
Ha! My apologies, bad mistyping—I meant the left!
Republicans and democrats. I think it must be a requirement that all politicians be functionally and mentally retarded with IQ’s no greater than 70 before they are allowed to run for office.
Ummm..., what is the penalty if your hard drive (with the data on it) went ‘south” yesterday (the day before they’re asking for the data)? LOL...
Sen. Cornyn is losing ground with me every day.
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