House Passes SAFE Act
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The House has passed the SAFE - Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online - act with only two dissenting votes. According to engadget, the bill is a bad thing because it’s a harsh rule that requires strict monitoring of Internet connections that borders on gestapo-esque:
“The new bill requires everyone (that includes you and Starbucks) offering an open WiFi connection to the public to be on the lookout for report known “illegal images” and “obscene” cartoons and drawings. The reporting requirement extends to cover social networking sites, ISPs, and email providers. Failing to dutifully report what you’ve seen (or haven’t seen but are unwittingly complicit in) could leave your data seized and in debt from fines of up to $300,000.”
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Kevin Bailey
December 7th, 2007
at 7:55am
This should save money for the government and increase income through fines! Lets do it!
We don’t need to hire numerous investigators to go out and find guilty criminals. We will force every citizen to report on each other and if they don’t we will fine them. We can reduce our police forces and quit going after the ones committing crimes and punish those that are accomplices through there lack of reporting. Finding people that don’t report crimes will be easier then finding people that commit crimes. Look over there in the blue jacket, that guy hasn’t called us ever so he hasn’t reported a crime so he is protecting someone. FINE HIM!
Why stop with Internet. Anyone that provides a public restroom that illegal activities take place in should be sited for not notifying officials. That will stop all illegal sex and drug transactions and hate mongering committed with witty and intelligent comments placed on the stalls.
Typical American Lawmakers - pass a law so we look busy and ‘earn’ our precious position that really places greater burden on society as a whole with little to no greater change in the actual issue.