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New Bill Worse than SOPA? Also sponsored by our lovable huggable friend Lamar Smith

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This Bill Entitled "The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011" Is a Bill with overly broadened language that greatly threatens all of us.
"under language approved 19 to 10 by a House committee, the firm that sells you Internet access would be required to track all of your Internet activity and save it for 18 months, along with your name, the address where you live, your bank account numbers, your credit card numbers, and IP addresses you've been assigned."
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...-could-kill-internet-privacy-for-good/242853/
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This is crazy. Are these people serious? I'm really starting to think that Lamar Smith is the most ignorant, out of touch politician in history. He tried to steam roll SOPA through regardless of what other people thought, and only gave up when it was obviously dead. And now this?
 
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New Bill Worse than SOPA? Also sponsored by our lovable huggable friend Lamar Smith

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/op9z0/threatening_new_bill_worse_than_sopapipa_make/


This is crazy. Are these people serious? I'm really starting to think that Lamar Smith is the most ignorant, out of touch politician in history. He tried to steam roll SOPA through regardless of what other people thought, and only gave up when it was obviously dead. And now this?
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I see nothing crazy about any of them

This, SOPA and PIPA all must pass and they will get passed no doubt.

At least it will take away the anonymity away from the those that have been getting away with some shit.
 
When passing really bad laws politicians often have to tie it to something or link it with a crisis. It can be about terrorists, saving our children, the environment, immigrants or whatever. It's all about money and control, it's always about money and power. If this ploy fails i'm sure he'll try another one, or someone will try it for him. It's nothing new.
 
Given enough time, possibility becomes inevitability.
They will have the technical and legal means in place for a police state.
After that, we'll be at the mercy of whoever is in power to decide whether to use those means and to what end.

And even if not, do you really want ISPs storing your financial and personal information and making it available to people without warrant? Even if you don't give a sh!t about the 4th Amendment, it's only a matter of time before this info leaks or is hacked, and people's identities get stolen.
 
What it boils down to is: Nutjob assholes who fear technology/openinfo/freesociety and want to impose their own personal, out of touch reality on everyone else.
 
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