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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

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That's the kind of subject line that would send me to Snopes.com for
some fact-checking.  But when the sender is Christian Stalberg, I know
it is for real.

TaB

Christian Stalberg wrote:
> http://agonist.org/josh_nelson/20070211/action_congress_wants_to_monitor_all_emails_ims_etc
> 
> 
> A bill introduced last week by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) is 
> beginning to raise eyebrows.
> 
> 
>   [It] would require ISPs to record all users' surfing activity, IM 
> conversations and email traffic indefinitely.
> The bill, dubbed the Safety Act by sponsor Lamar Smith, a republican 
> congressman from Texas, would impose fines and a prison term of one year on 
> ISPs which failed to keep full records. (emphasis mine).
> 
> ....
> 
> Under the guise of reducing child pornography, the SAFETY (Stopping Adults 
> Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act) Act is currently the 
> gravest threat to digital privacy rights on the Internet.  Given the 
> increasing tendency of people, especially young people, to use the Internet 
> as a primary means of communications, this measure would effect nearly all 
> Americans in ways we are only beginning to understand. Also, given the fact 
> that the Act requires all Internet Service Providers to record the web 
> surfing activity of all Internet users, this amounts to the warrantless 
> wiretapping of the entire Internet.
> 
> 
> 
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> "Don't deceive yourselves for a moment as to the power of the great 
> interests which now dominate our development." "No matter that there are 
> men 
> in this country big enough to own the government of the United States. They 
> are going to own it if they can." "There is no salvation in the pitiful 
> condescensions of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of 
> freemen. Prosperity guaranteed by trustees has no prospect of endurance."
> 
> Woodrow Wilson, 1913 
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