MORE PROSPECTIVE ASSAULTS ON OUR INTERNET FREEDOMS
Most bloggers know about China's oppressive censorship of citizen access to sites of which the government disapproves, and of an ISP's perfidy in revealing a blogger to the government for prosecution.
IS THE US ON ITS WAY? Some news reports in the past have indicated our government wants the same information from our ISPs -- with a good excuse before, ofccourse.
Bushco ignores the disapproval of other nations when it suits him, but jumps on their bandwagons when their programs fit his desires. Will he copy Europe now?
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DATA RETENTION COME TO USA:
(SOME ISPs ALREADY HAVE SUCH PROGRAMS)
As always: Europe passes compulsory collection of ISP data, so now the US government wants it too. (We come closer and closer to complete loss of privacy and complete governmental control; and closer and closer to a totalitarian government).
http://news.com.com/ISP+snooping+gaining+support/2100-1028_3-6061187.html
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I do not know what's going on. This (below) is one more instance of clicking off a page to post or check something else first, then 5 minutes later when I click back I get a page saying the page cannot be displayed. It WAS a valid url until a few minutes ago. Drat it. I'm leaving it just in case you might access it. (Note from Ann: It needed a "dot" which I added - works now) Compaq is doing much better since Granny's friend worked on it, but still has some mopping up to do, so I always give errors and aggravations the benefit of the doubt, that they may be due to Compaq's illness. Hope you get the article.
GOODBYE ONLINE VIDEO AND BLOGS? Effect of proposed EU broadcasting regulations if extended to the internet.
http://463.blogs.com/the_463/2006/04/au_revoir_youtu.html
I subscribed to You Tube and unsubscribed after my email was inundated with emails of their videos, most of which held no interest to me. But I defend their right to publish over the internet as well as many, many more that offer much of interest to mature citizens, as well as news vids. And I certainly do not want it to extend to bloggers. Fie on them!
IS THE US ON ITS WAY? Some news reports in the past have indicated our government wants the same information from our ISPs -- with a good excuse before, ofccourse.
Bushco ignores the disapproval of other nations when it suits him, but jumps on their bandwagons when their programs fit his desires. Will he copy Europe now?
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DATA RETENTION COME TO USA:
(SOME ISPs ALREADY HAVE SUCH PROGRAMS)
As always: Europe passes compulsory collection of ISP data, so now the US government wants it too. (We come closer and closer to complete loss of privacy and complete governmental control; and closer and closer to a totalitarian government).
http://news.com.com/ISP+snooping+gaining+support/2100-1028_3-6061187.html
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I do not know what's going on. This (below) is one more instance of clicking off a page to post or check something else first, then 5 minutes later when I click back I get a page saying the page cannot be displayed. It WAS a valid url until a few minutes ago. Drat it. I'm leaving it just in case you might access it. (Note from Ann: It needed a "dot" which I added - works now) Compaq is doing much better since Granny's friend worked on it, but still has some mopping up to do, so I always give errors and aggravations the benefit of the doubt, that they may be due to Compaq's illness. Hope you get the article.
GOODBYE ONLINE VIDEO AND BLOGS? Effect of proposed EU broadcasting regulations if extended to the internet.
http://463.blogs.com/the_463/2006/04/au_revoir_youtu.html
I subscribed to You Tube and unsubscribed after my email was inundated with emails of their videos, most of which held no interest to me. But I defend their right to publish over the internet as well as many, many more that offer much of interest to mature citizens, as well as news vids. And I certainly do not want it to extend to bloggers. Fie on them!
posted by Anonymous @ 4/22/2006 07:23:00 AM
1 Comments:
At Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:47:00 AM ,
Anonymous said...
I'm sorry but in the US, data retention laws applied to the ISPs themselves, would be redundant. When a broadband shunt to NSA is already installed in AT&T's main data switching center, and the government is prepared to defend its legality, the only means left to the citizens is to use the technology available to secure their own communications.
Got something sensitive you want to send in email? Encrypt it. Got something sensitive you need to do over the Internet, use an anonymization service (while you still can).
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