Did you know that the FBI is pressing internet providers to keep a log of all, yes, ALL the web sites we visit? Think about it. Their premise is that it is a way for them to catch those creeps who view child porn and commit other serious crimes via the net. The FBI proposes these logs be kept for two years. Joe McCarthy would be so proud, as would Herbert Hoover.
Cnet News Reports that:
FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users' "origin and destination information," a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday.
In my opinion this would be a violation of our fourth and fourteenth amendment rights. Normally I would not think that congress would take such a route, however in the current political climate I'm not so sure.Under the guise of "protecting" us, they could monitor who was reading what blog, political site, social networking site, where we shopped; the list could go on forever.
And Lord save us if we clicked on one of those bait-and-switch links that took us to a porn site we didn't mean to visit. The cops would be at the door and we would be gone. Or, for us bloggers, if our research led us to a site they thought was subversive; oh well, too bad for us.
I, and many of my readers, visit many web sites, whether "terroristic" or not to gain knowledge of world politics, culture, and religion. Are we to give up our wonderful source of information out of fear we're being watched and judged? If this is made legal, a child doing a report on The Manhattan Project could end up on a watch list for doing his research on the web or on a no-fly list.
To me this is one more example of Big Brother attempting to know everything about us, 100% of the time.
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