Comments on: Nettapping for everyone

By: Dave Taht

Dave Taht — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:56:39 +0000

Doc:

Nice to see you going deep, rather than wide. The blogging world could use a few more people actually willing to read and digest the hard stuff, before regurgitating.

By: Opening door to Internet censorship under guise of Saving the Children

Opening door to Internet censorship under guise of Saving the Children — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:50:04 +0000

[...] today Doc Searls had a post where he pointed to two pieces of legislation that would make this enforced policing easier to [...]

By: Russell Nelson

Russell Nelson — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:36:09 +0000

Barr. He’s the only choice if you value freedom.

By: Ehud

Ehud — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:10:05 +0000

IS the idea to distribute a list of file names? the files themselves? Digital fingerprints?

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:33:14 +0000

It bothers me that Biden’s, McCain’s and Obama’s names are all on Net-related legislation.

I have more hope for Obama than McCain in respect to the Net, but Biden concerns me. On this stuff I just hope Barack keeps Joe in the room with the magazines and out of policy making.

By: jonathan peterson

jonathan peterson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:45:42 +0000

Kind of amazing to think that a law would force ISPs to not only become policemen, but policemen who are NEVER allowed to make a mistake.

FWIW – if the law is written in such a way that actually makes “it a felony for ISPs to fail to report any “actual knowledge” of child pornography.” ISPs have only 2 choices to safely run their business.

1) report EVERY file transfer that they see to the feds, so that they aren’t liable for anything that is missed
2) don’t monitor ANYTHING, so that there is no chance of ever having “actual knowledge”

I’d do the one that has zero cost, myself.

The post 9/11 bank “secrecy” laws are similar – in that case banks HAVE to monitor transactions as part of their business, so they report just about everything and swamp investigating agencies.

It doesn’t WORK worth a damn, but it IS way cheaper than actually funding police agencies well enough to do the jobs themselves and congress can claim to be “doing something about the problem”.

By: Khürt Louis Francis Elliot Williams

Khürt Louis Francis Elliot Williams — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:36:28 +0000

Insert cure face of child victim and you can get even the most draconian legislation passed.