There's no way this shit gets passed, is there?
Bill proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi keep logs for police - CNN.com
WTF...? A Bill That Forces Home WiFi AP Users to Keep Records for 2 Years
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I get scared every time I hear any politician talking about
"Protecting the children" or "to keep you safe from terrorists"
The US, Aus and EU all seem to be getting more and more authoratarian, using the flimsiest of excuses.
If they carry on at the current rate, I'll be emigrating in 15 years to somewhere more liberal, like China.
"Protecting the children" or "to keep you safe from terrorists"
The US, Aus and EU all seem to be getting more and more authoratarian, using the flimsiest of excuses.
If they carry on at the current rate, I'll be emigrating in 15 years to somewhere more liberal, like China.
I could only hope so. Dems are equally if not more thirsty for total sheeple control except they implement it under the guise of protecting us from ourselves.
There is a lot more financial freedom outside the west. The only reason the government can do all this sneak and peak, is that you have no control over your activities on your property. No property rights.
250 years ago, liberals (not progressives) understood that absolute property rights were the key to freedom. We've totally forgotten that, as socialism has failed, but it's continuing to be implemented.
LoZ has it... They are all the same. They aren't serving a partisan ideology, they are serving the ideology of control and authoritarianism. The partisan games are just to make everyone feel involved during the election, to maintain the facade that democracy is anything more than a shell game at the top, and mob rule at the bottom.
I heard a funny story about McCain when he was the Chairman of some tech committee. Communications or something.
He heard on a Florida radio station, some show host ripping him, so McCain called the station, and demanded to be put on air. The guy who answered the phone tried to explain to him that the show was taped and they were replaying it. That it was not live. But McCain insisted he be put on the air to talk to the host, completely oblivious to the idea that all radio is not live.
And this was the guy making decisions about the radio and television industry.
Most politicians don't have real world skills or experiences. They don't know how much milk costs, they don't put gas in their own cars.
Which was my point entirely. Are they going to audit anyone? Maybe at first, but like all things stupid this will break. Once it breaks (they relize there is no way to do this) it'll be dropped.
That or there are going to be lots of "accidental" losses of records.
HarveyJ
He is - THE CACTUS!
The vast majority of users have no idea how to setup, control or monitor their home networks. They plug shit into the USB port, and because they have a semi-clean install of Windows or OSX, it just works.
Good luck trying to get any of of the home user details.
As for using public access, there are some decent arguments for keeping records, but honestly, if you're using a public access point for the purposes of transmitting kiddy porn or some sort of terroristic information, there's a good chance you're just using the public access net to get into a proxy anyway.
By and large, the uncaught terrorists and child pornographers aren't all that stupid. After all, they haven't been caught yet, have they?
Good luck trying to get any of of the home user details.
As for using public access, there are some decent arguments for keeping records, but honestly, if you're using a public access point for the purposes of transmitting kiddy porn or some sort of terroristic information, there's a good chance you're just using the public access net to get into a proxy anyway.
By and large, the uncaught terrorists and child pornographers aren't all that stupid. After all, they haven't been caught yet, have they?
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