Posted on 01/24/2012 10:53:44 AM PST by ShadowAce
George Orwell is turning into a modern nostradamus.....
Well, it’s illegal for companies to delete email (another gross invasion of privacy, btw) so why not this?
/s
It is the same thing they have been doing with the WOD for years. There is always some new law infringing you your personal rights so they can “better” wage the WOD.
What is it with Lamar Smith and monitoring people on the web?
Is he a control freak in other areas, too?
Tell me Smith (who is a congressman, not a senator) has a primary opponent strong. Please. . . otherwise folks in his district might be obliged to vote for the ‘Rat in the general, paradoxically for the good of the Republic.
It is weird - so many outlets report him as “Senator Lamar Smith” when he is a Representative. Regardless, he is making republicans look dumb by being out in front on all there bills..
It’s a shame that Smith is a GOP member !
Technically impossible to enforce 100%. It is easy for someone to open an encrypted tunnel to out of jurisdication locations and or servers, conduct their fiancial transactions without the ISP being able to have any insite to the transaction.
It is an attempt to have the ISP a commercial organization to take on the role of law enforcement. Bad idea from the begining.
My son, student at Univ of Texas, is planning to move his voter registration to Austin just to vote against this moron. I agree that Intellectual Property rights are important, but this guy takes it way too far.
You mean all the bad guys use TOR anyway?
1981?
“What is it with Lamar Smith and monitoring people on the web?”
It’s a projected guilt complex. Lamar Smith is probably abusing himself to gay child porn and this is his expressing his self-destructive intent to get caught.
Easily circumvented: Run a ssh link to a proxy located offshore, or use an offshore VPN.
...The party affiliation shouldn't matter, most of Congress is a disgrace, dems and rupubs.
This is exactly the argument used to pass Australia’s online censorship. Certain “offending” web sites would be blocked to supposedly stop child porn, but when the list of blocked sites was leaked it contained a bizarre array of sites including a web site of an Australian dentist. Note this is exactly what China does. The blocking software slowed down Internet access and was paid for with a new tax on Internet service.
It is obvious that some people, like this Senator, just have no understanding of the limits to government. For them, government is god.
Sad to say that it’s often true.
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