The House just passed a bill - ISPs to record 1 yr of Internet Activity

[pepsigirl]

you're lucky he saved you.

you were about to get stoned to death by OT'ers

[Jose A]

good thing this was just passed before the house came to a conclusion on our country's future

[<3cute, young and wild!<3]

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[cedrpnt]

Yea the Supreme Court will actually be ruling on this matter later in the year

[Daniel O]

[Annagram the Eskimoette]

USA is becoming the old China, day by day little by little

[Angelou R]

I can see the commercials now.

"My opponent, Representative Derpington, voted against the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. He wants to expose your children to internet pornographers!"

[antoinette2190]

What a fucking joke, lol.

[puck]

I urge everyone who opposes this to write your congressperson and let them know. EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)an organization dedicated to internet freedoms, has a form letter that you can send and it takes less than a minute. All you have to do is fill out your name address and other basic information

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=497

"I am a constituent and I strongly urge you to oppose H.R. 1981, the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act. This bill, by imposing sweeping data retention requirements on a broad swath of online service providers, would compromise the online privacy and free speech rights of millions of innocent Americans while also threatening innovation and growth in the communications industry.

No one opposes the goal of protecting children against exploitation, but this bill would treat every Internet user like a criminal. It would require my own Internet Service Provider to intentionally undermine my online privacy. The mandatory data retention scheme proposed in H.R. 1981 would leave my and everyone else's personal data vulnerable to overzealous government investigators, unscrupulous civil litigants, black hat hackers and accidental data breaches, while doing little to nothing to help children.

By requiring commercial providers of Internet access to retain network address logs for 12 months, H.R. 1981 threatens my constitutional rights to speak freely and read privately online. At the same time, it would impose new costs on Internet service providers and small businesses that could raise prices and chill innovation.

This is not a party-line issue; House merabers on both sides of the aisle share my concerns about H.R. 1981. In the worRAB of Mr. Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), the bill runs "roughshod over the privacy rights of people who use the Internet for thousanRAB of lawful purposes" and should be "defeated and put in the dustbin of history." I couldn't have said it better myself.

Requiring Internet companies to redesign and reconfigure their systems to facilitate government surveillance of Americans' expressive activities is simply un-American. Such a scheme would be as objectionable to our Founders as the requiring of licenses for printing presses or the banning of anonymous pamphlets. I am turning to you, my elected Representative, so that you will protect my constitutional rights and push back against this anti-privacy, anti-free speech, anti-innovation proposal.

Please protect my digital civil liberties by opposing H.R. 1981 and by supporting any amendment to remove or narrow the dangerous and un-American data retention mandate that it contains."

This is the form letter it senRAB.

[The Changeling]

orly?

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