news.com.com — The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned.
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kerouac906Mar 4, 2007
Folks, he's still got 688 days to do some serious damage. Let your congressman (or woman) know how you feel, especially if it is a Democrat. There are going to be far too many gray areas in an action like this for it to be 'effective'... Also, let your favorite image sharing sites know that you are against this and will pull all your images and recommend everyone you know to do so too.At what point will it be clear to Americans that this is no longer a truly free country. Well, maybe it never was.@ dw2005 - Right on, and then when the next Pres hopefully gets us back to 'normal' the republicans will cry that he hasn't gotten anything done and sent us back to a pre-9/11 way of life... Which is fine by me.
Closed AccountMar 4, 2007
That's what ya' get for thinking.
phil246Mar 4, 2007
so, "just keep your access.log ta" in other words.If he wants them to force a login system with personally identifiable information then he's out of his mind
grifmcrenoldsMar 4, 2007
Foreign terrorists don't have "constitutional right" in the first place. The American constitution only applies to American *citizens*. "Oh, but that isn't fair!" Yeah, it's real smart to read an enemy his Miranda rights before shooting him on the battlefield. Let's fight smart instead of fighting fair, because in the long run the latter will get you killed.Most of these guys demanding constitutional rights for enemy combatants and terrorists have never ever READ the document. Even if they were an American citizen, an act of terrorism against one's own country is an act of treason, and their constitutional rights are forfeit.How do you even sneak an argument about terrorism into this discussion in the first place? The article is about tracking down people who post CP to image sharing sites. I agree that this initiative being put forth is complete horse s**t. If somebody posts CP to Flickr, then Flickr being the host already has a reason to delete the image and track down the poster. We don't need the government grabbing more power, ever.The simple fact is that this has nothing to do with protecting children in the first place. This is a way to put more pressure on web sites to censor speech, this time in image form. Today it's CP, and everyone accepts it because we all know that anybody who touches a kid is a f**king scum bag that should be shot in the face. But it never ends with things like that. Hosting child pornography is already illegal, as it should be. But this kind of pressure is only a scare tactic against image hosts to make sure they know that the government can kick your ass any time they want. Next they start cracking down on images of the Tienanmen Square massacre, because it's deemed to controversial. Then a pic of George W. Bush flipping off the camera. Governments don't like the free exchange of information, period. And that's what this is really about.
ryosenMar 4, 2007
I pity whoever takes over from Bush, He or she will have to spend their 4 years fixing all his mistakes and repealing all of the stupid laws he enacted.I pity whoever takes over from Clinton, He or she will have to spend their 4 years fixing all his mistakes and repealing all of the stupid laws he enacted.I pity whoever takes over from Bush, He or she will have to spend their 4 years fixing all his mistakes and repealing all of the stupid laws he enacted.I pity whoever takes over from Regan, He or she will have to spend their 4 years fixing all his mistakes and repealing all of the stupid laws he enacted.I pity whoever takes over from Carter, He or she will have to spend their 4 years fixing all his mistakes and repealing all of the stupid laws he enacted.so on and so on...
Closed AccountMar 4, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://tor.eff.org/">http://tor.eff.org/</a>Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol.... Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called onion routers, protecting you from websites that build profiles of your interests, local eavesdroppers that read your data or learn what sites you visit, and even the onion routers themselves.
Closed AccountMar 5, 2007
@sonaro"Where is my f**kin' machine gun?"Digg has logged your IP and is forwarding some men in black suits to your home right now. This notice brought to you by the Department of Homeland Security.