Holy SHIT! House Passes New Internet Law Without Any Review!

I haven't read a lot of articles about this but it sounds very intrusive to privacy. It's good to know that authorities treat everyone like a sex offender.

 

and clearly it's useless against actual dangerous predators.

there were some news stories about it when the bill first went to committee, but not enough to shake americans out of their stupor.

 

this is alfa foxtrot uniform, pure bull crap!
more of the same from this braindead regime in dc.....

 

You could always go offshore for hosting.



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Actually, this appears to be so broadly written that the courts will pick it apart in no time.

This looks to be a bill passed more for the sake of political visibility than solving any problems. It "looks good" while having ro real chance of enforcement. It's one of those turds the house passes everytime they think they're being watched.



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What bullshit. How would they even plan on monitoring all the images that people are looking at? There's fucking billions of them.

At least Ron Paul is still showing that he has common sense, isn't just another political sheep, and is for the people. Our govt is so fucked...

(BTW, hilarious sig pic xenon )

 

In my opinion, law enforcement just uses acts/laws like this to stretch their powers. Also, they might stretch this out to have an excuse to produce related evidence against someone who is not remotely charged with a sex offense.

 

This is what the SAFE Act requires: Anyone providing an "electronic communication service" or "remote computing service" to the public who learns about the transmission or storage of information about certain illegal activities or an illegal image must (a) register their name, mailing address, phone number, and fax number with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's "CyberTipline" and (b) "make a report" to the CyberTipline that (c) must include any information about the person or Internet address behind the suspect activity and (d) the illegal images themselves

does this include all the pictures on this site of people doing drugs and stuff?

 

At least currently the act only covers "illegal images" pertaining to child pornography.

 

Moop, my response is based only on the quoted statement you posted.

This only applies to website and server operators/providers that know about kiddie porn or their webservice. It does not apply to drugs, violence, or anything else. The reason I say that is because of part (a): " the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's "CyberTipline" ". You wouldn't report drug-related incidents to the missing childrens hotline unless it involved missing children.

Basically, no you don't have to do anything. If you are a normal person, you are not required to report kiddie porn. Furthermore, this quote does not imply that drug-related activity needs to be reported.

Honestly, I should read the whole act myself. Skip, would this apply to both you and I?

 

I think you nailed the truth to the wall on this. The government (or certain officials) seem to be getting trigger happy. They are willing to label anyone they want as a criminal. I thought there was an amendment that stated civilians had the right to Due Process.

 

Supposedly, this SAFE Act is applicable to email, such as gmail and hotmail. Here is a government link to a summary:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-3791

I might add some more links in soon.

 

Skip, while I completely agree with your above post you and I both know they don't need to pass a law to shut a communication service down or circumvent due process of law.

History is littered with people being held without cause, civil liberty violations, and agencies stepping outside the bounds of the constitution/ rights of citizens both in America and all over the world. This has occurred and will continue to occur both now and after the next fear mongering act "they" think up.

Same shit different decade.

While that doesn't make it something to be ignored, I don't think it's something to be feared anymore than Patriot Act II, Patriot Act I, and all the other nonsense bills that have been passed without my personal consent. There's no stopping the landslide at this point. I'm just waiting for the day to come when I actually have to move out into the woods.

Besides, as vague as it is, it's still vague in the general realm of kiddie porn and minors. So no need to fear for hipforums yet. We probably still have a few more years till it all hits us in full swing. Till then, lets party like it's 1984!!

 

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I don't think this ACT could be amended that far unless people are downloading/uploading kiddie porn.

 

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It doesn't look like this has been voted on in the Senate. Hopefully it will not pass there. Write your Senators.

How nice, Hillary is a cosponor of the Senate bill.