Data Retention: Your Privacy at Risk
Big brother wants to know everything you say online. Read about it here. The government is considering creation of laws to require ISPs to retain all records of transmission between any Internet users. The argument is that it will help prevent terrorism and catch child abusers.
Remember when the FBI said the Mafia didn't exist and the great threat to America was communism. Well, "Goodnight and Good Luck."
In the meantime, laws already exist allowing the government to require ISPs to retain this information on persons identified as potential risks. Any new law would simply require them to maintain records on all of us, regardless of whether the government had identified us as potential risks to national security. In other words, the government wants the power to identify us ALL as risks. The question is to whom are the citizens at large of this country a risk? Are we a government of the people, by the people, for the people? Or has that notion been sold to the highest bidder?
For an example of what can happen with this sort of blanket surveillance, check out this.
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Big brother wants to know everything you say online. Read about it here. The government is considering creation of laws to require ISPs to retain all records of transmission between any Internet users. The argument is that it will help prevent terrorism and catch child abusers.
Remember when the FBI said the Mafia didn't exist and the great threat to America was communism. Well, "Goodnight and Good Luck."
In the meantime, laws already exist allowing the government to require ISPs to retain this information on persons identified as potential risks. Any new law would simply require them to maintain records on all of us, regardless of whether the government had identified us as potential risks to national security. In other words, the government wants the power to identify us ALL as risks. The question is to whom are the citizens at large of this country a risk? Are we a government of the people, by the people, for the people? Or has that notion been sold to the highest bidder?
For an example of what can happen with this sort of blanket surveillance, check out this.
Love Nostalgia? Check out RadioLovers.com:
We offer hundreds of vintage radio shows for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all for free. Before the days of video games, shopping malls, MTV, and the Internet, families used to sit in their living room each night to listen to radio shows such as Abbott and Costello, Superman, Groucho Marx, The Avenger, Gunsmoke, Sherlock Homes, and many others. When TV become popular in the 1950's, most of these shows went off the air, but they now live on at websites such as this one and on weekly nostalgia radio broadcasts worldwide.(from Radiolovers.com - Free Old Time Radio Shows)
posted by Jim | 2:46 PM
1 Comments:
Okay, I don't mean to lower your credibility here or anything, but I just thought you might enjoy this picture.
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Check it out, and then tell me that is not the most frightening picture of our V.P. you've ever seen. Seems fitting of the relationship there though, doesn't it?
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