and the republican continues to try to butt their fat asses in on us...

[giotakahashi]

Republican congressman Lamar Smith from Texas, introduced a bill, which he dubbed the Safety Act, to the US House of Representatives. If it goes through, the bill would require ISPs to record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic and would impose fines and a prison term of one year on ISPs which failed to keep full records

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[charlietheman]

Lamar Smith kiss my ass.. how about instead of his 20 year jail tariff, ten fingers clamped together into a fist, pounding down on his face like fucking jackhammers? Works better for me..

[beachbtch87]

Actually, I think its not a bad idea. There are alot of creeps out there and seriously, if you don't have anything to hide on what you do/write online, what difference does it make if they moniter you. Its not like they know you personally and can therefore CARE about what kinds of things you write. If you think about it, they are basically going to be trafficking the internet and they can't READ everyone's IM's EMAILS and website surfing. All they do is look out for certain words, phrases, websites, searches, etc. If you write an IM to someone and say you want to kill the president and seriously plot it out, then thats something they would look out for. If you were planning to bomb shit, thats what they look out for. I kind of agree with it because I think safety is important especially online in certain cases

[beachbtch87]

But I'm a republican.

[giotakahashi]

Oh I know that the government already have the means of policing the internet. I don't like it. Sure, it's a great idea to help reduce child pornography and a way to stop cyber predators from doing what they do.

I'm not exactly comfortable with my internet service provider keeping an archive of everything I do online, I'm generally a very private person. Whether they care or not, it doesn't make me comfortable at all knowing that the things I say to my friends are kept private. As long as there's an archive of everything I say kept somewhere, there will always be a chance for it to be compromised.

I understand the good reasoning for it, but it still sucks that EVERYONE THAT USES IM will have their conversations recorded, in some effort to keep tabs on the crimes that take place on the internet.

[beachbtch87]

Eh. IMO it doesn't really bother me. I don't say anything of general concern. I laugh because maybe my conversation will be read by some guy whose archiving them and he might laugh at something witty I say.

No, but seriously. It probably wont pass, but if it does, its not the worst thing in the world that could happen. The worst thing that could happen would be taking the internet down altogether.

[maestrotj]

And here I thought the Republican philosophy was more along the lines of "less government".

[beachbtch87]

Its more along the lines of more military and security.