Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping

[mikeybabe125]

--SNIP--

"It didn't take long for the idea of forcing Internet providers to retain records of their users' activities to gain traction in the U.S. Congress".

Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a Republican, gave a speech saying that data retention by Internet service providers is an "issue that must be addressed." Child pornography investigations have been "hampered" because data may be routinely deleted, Gonzales warned.

Now, in a demonstration of bipartisan unity, a Democratic member of the Congressional Internet Caucus is preparing to introduce an amendment--perhaps during a U.S. House of Representatives floor vote next week--that would make such data deletion illegal.

http://news.com.com/Congress+may+consider+mandatory+ISP+snooping/2100-1028_3-6066608.html?tag=cd.hed

[LaPera]

1. Child pornography, what a bullshit excuse, we are suppose to again trust

this admitted lawbreaking, eavesdropping, lying administration?

What they really want is info on Dem's...As if they will ignore emails about people arranging a protest of Bush's neocon policies at one of Bush's stops.

They want info on you and me....And that's a fact...They want to control the Internet somehow, someway, they hate all this free flow of information and progressive political donations.

[cascadiance]

7. Yup, they need an excuse to spy on Francine Busby's campaign in CA...

First the NRCC in a TV ad here calls her a fan of child pornography in a libelous way taking her comments severely out of context. Next step will be to require ISP's to turn over all of the data that goes through her site. Next step is anyone else they want to go after. YOU could be a child pornagrapher too!

[Old and In the Way]

2. We are all potential child pornographers now, in the eyes of our

government. This is a very sick government that we have. They have no trust in the American people and need to have access into everything we are reading on the net. It's not naked children pics they are worried about, it's the citizens reading the truth about what they are doing that gets them extremely nervous.

[incapsulated]

3. Child porn my ass, this is big brother...

Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the free-market Cato Institute, said: "This is an unrestricted grant of authority to the FCC to require surveillance."

"The FCC would be able to tell Internet service providers to monitor our e-mails, monitor our Web surfing, monitor what we post on blogs or chat rooms, and everything else under the sun," said Harper, a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. "We're seeing a kind of hysteria reminiscent of the McMartin case. The result will be privacy that goes away and doesn't come back when the foolishness is exposed."

[newyawker99]

4. Hi mikeybabe125!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[w4rma]

5. They don't give a flip about child pornographers. This is about power.(nt)

[slay]

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