

New bills seek to end internet anonymity











“It's a terrible idea,” said Rotenberg.


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RE: Parents' responsibility
By Pandamonium on 2/23/2009 10:22:50 AM , Rating: 3
If I raise my kid to trust strangers and run away/hide from their teachers at school, then yes, it's my fault.

I doubt that pedophiles kidnap the same way organized crime does. If pedophiles drove around wearing masks in black vans and snatched unsuspecting children off sidewalks, I'd be for state involvement. (or at least, making policemen protect & serve rather than issue parking/speeding tickets)

RE: Parents' responsibility
By Suntan on 2/23/09, Rating: 0
RE: Parents' responsibility
By Old Man Dotes on 2/23/2009 12:00:08 PM , Rating: 3

The obvious intent is that "the government should not impose an unreasonable burden on citizens for the *stated* purpose of making it possible to track child molesters, because we informed citizens know that (1) the logs will not be especially useful in such investigations, and (2) the logs will be used for other purposes instead, to protect the monopoly power of certain copyright-controlling syndicates."

This is a bad law in so many ways that there simply isn't time to detail them all.

And for those who think "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide," let's not forget Joe McCarthy. It isn't necessary to do something illegal for a politician to twist "evidence" to make it *appear* that you've broken the law; all he cares about is more power, more headlines, and getting re-elected by the sheep.

RE: Parents' responsibility
By Suntan on 2/23/09, Rating: 0
RE: Parents' responsibility
By mindless1 on 2/23/2009 6:22:20 PM , Rating: 2
... except a teacher might be a pedo, or a bus driver, or anyone else. Parents do not have 24/7 monitoring AND control over what someone else does. They can attempt to do something AFTER they find out, but not so much prevent an event of abuse.

Pedos do sometimes drive around in vans and snatch up kids, or in shopping malls, sidewalks near schools, anywhere there might be children. There has to be governmental involvement to some degree for law enforcement, but at the same time that should not impose on individual citizens to monitor everyone around them including not logging all data transmissions until there is a reason to suspect illegal activity is actually being transmitted at a specific place, time, etc.

