This article on cnet.com tells of a new, extremely invasive bill Republicans in Congress are looking to pass. It forces "all Internet service providers to keep track of what their customers are doing online to aid police in future investigations."
If this isn't Orwellian to the max, then I don't know what is. I would equate it to being maybe a little more repugnant than the government rooting around a person's garbage can for incriminating refuse. It is disgusting on many accounts, and too much irrelevant, personal information would be caught in such a wide net being thrown.
If this bill passes, people can look forward to a whole new bureaucracy of Patriot Act-type magnitude.
This brings up another interesting topic: Are cities where the government is planning on implementing its own wireless Internet service already going to be doing this type of thing to monitor what their constituents are viewing?
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Rage against the MACHINE Couldn't imagine how much control the government would have over the data handling. That would be a day of renegade internet access :-)
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