Congress pissing on the constitution.

[nynco]

Yeah look that way towards the debt ceiling talks so we can cram through garbage like this. Protecting children from porn my ass. When are we gonna stop losing our freedoms in the name of protection?


The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would require Internet service providers (ISPs) to collect and retain records about Internet users' activity.

CNET reported the bill would require ISPs to retain customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses for 12 months.

The bill passed by a vote of 19 to 10, and is aimed at helping law enforcement track down pedophiles.

“The bill is mislabeled,” Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), a senior member of the panel told CNET. “This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It’s creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes.”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20...snooping-bill/

[two shoes]

The government is here to protect us as we are not able to protect ourselves...

Create a diversion, run the ball the other way. The tail wags the dog...

[Jumpstart]

Damn. That's bad. What a crock.

[Sharpienads]

Whatever, congress clearly has the authority to do this "under several clauses, the good and welfare clause and a couple others. All the scholars, the constitutional scholars that I know -- I’m chairman of the Judiciary committee, as you know -- they all say that there’s nothing unconstitutional in this bill..."

(Shout out to my good buddy and Constitutional Scholar Rep. John Conyers)

Also, the Fourth Amendment clearly doesn't apply to the internet. There's no way the Founders could have known about the internet. That's why they left the Constitution open to interpretation. Besides, they were just a bunch of white slave owners. AND... it's to protect us, because mommy, errr, i mean congress knows best. Duh.

Quit trying to think for yourself, nynco. It's dangerous.

[Ronin13]

Quit trying to think for yourself, nynco. It's dangerous.

Someone here is not being a good automaton? Must... report... to... authorities....
Must... send... to... re-education center.

Regardless of whether or not the internet is protected by the 4th, your CC# and personal information is safeguarded by the privacy act of 1974...

[waxthis]

Ha...Can’t wait to see how they will implement that.

[nynco]

The internet is not protected under the 4th Amendment........???

Well I guess your guns are not protected under the 2nd too. In fact constitution smonstitution.......... as long as I'm safe. Right....

[mcantar18c]

Pretty sure that anyone who I am doing business with is already keeping normal business records. The phone company, the power company, the cable company and a number of other places keep all kinds of records about you. For most people their IP address does not change in 12 months, but most ISPs already keep records to deal with abuse.

So... I operate under the assumption that all this is being done already.

[BPTactical]

Proxy servers may get pretty popular...........

[airborneranger]

I guess my wife will have to stop streaming all of that porn