god i hope they go through and get pass

i really think they day dream about this crap and watch videos or talk with others were they get hook on this crap!

I don’t know too much about this but it seems to go way too far.

“A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user.”

That’s insane. Especially since that refers to individuals and their home WiFi as far as I can tell. I’m all for “protecting the children” but what about privacy? And allowing people to have WiFi without ridiculous restrictions on it that make it unfeasible?

I agree that two years is too long with the short attention span that people have… but at the same time, I am the mother of 3 girls… and if any of my children were exploited… it could be twenty years later and I would still be… ummm… ticked (to put it mildly)

However there should be a line drawn between privacy and policy.

over all, I hope it does get passed.

As a network engineer, I believe this is one of the most ill conceived and moronic legislation in the history of congress.

Next congress will vote on the “Fluffy bunny kitten act” which will store nerve gas in daycare centers.

1ST) this will do NOTHING to help anyones children or stop the people who actually know something about the Internet(unlike congress).
2nd) This will put a massive burden on small business to create a logging system and maintain backups
3rd) the standard wireless encryption for access passwords is easily broken.
4th) Most home wireless routers are not configures with any passwords!
5th) IP addresses are about as useful as astrology and tea leaves for tracking a suspect.
6th) the few routers that do track DHCP information are easy to reset if you have access thereby leaving the legal burden on the host(you)

Obviously the sponsors of this bill have know IDEA what this will do!

If your using a home wireless network and this bill passes you will be required to keep records of all systems access in your router for two years. Meaning IF your router actually keeps this info(not many do) you must provide a backup service of every time you rest your router(or there is a power outage

This has nothing to do with protecting children, it’s just a way to get people to agree with an Orwellian viewpoint.

New systems that rout traffic between wireless routers providing FREE access to everyone and a free boost to internet speeds for everyone are just being released and will be made illegal by default(of course these systems would cut into ISP revenue stream so maybe thats what this is really about??)

If you take a look at the blogs on this subject the only people supporting it seem to have a monetary reason for it or are not computer literate to know what it really means.

The only good point to this is it will create massive accounting and computer support burden, keeping people like me employed.

The point I’m trying to make is BEWARE of bills like these. They are a much greater danger to your children than any pedophile on the Internet.

I agree with you. Just because a bill is ‘supposed’ to ‘save the children’, it doesn’t mean it will accomplish anything.

I totally agree with you. Please elaborate on why you think it would be such a great danger.

>`(h) Retention of Certain Records – A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user.’. <——-

That alone gets a nay from me…

whats next? we all must have a gps device on us at all times so the govt can track everywhere we go and record the times weve been there dating back the last 2 years. after all, somewhere out there on the mean streets a a child is being molested… and after all it IS for the children…

nice try, “for the children” can be used to pass just about any bad law or tax hike.

I hope this law dies as usual

This bill is not about protecting kids but about protecting the music and movie industry. They need to fine a new business model. Times change.

If you have Wifi at home, YOU will be required to maintain 2 years of access logs… That’s just not going to happen. So what happens if you can’t comply with the law?

Just “hope that this law dies as usual”? I challenge you and everyone else that is opposed to this bill to take action. Contact your representatives and let them know how you feel. Call them – now!

And those of you who don’t understand what ramifications this bill has on society need to get informed. Ignorance is NOT bliss.

http://www.douglas.rehfeldtonline.org/blog/archives/80

Keep the internet free, unregulated and unsupervised by any governmental agency. Let parents keep their children safe! As in off the internet without supervision.

To contact your reps, go to www.congress.org, enter your zip code about 1/3 way down the page on the right, follow from there.

Or fax them at www.faxyouropinion.com. I faxed all my reps for .90 cents, easy.

All this talk doesn’t make a whit of difference if we don’t let them know we are watching.

NO. Check out this article on internet surveillance: http://www.answers.com/topic/internet-surveillance
Step-by-step the government is getting more control over the sheeple while they sleep.

Yes, this looks pretty undoable. I do wish there was a way to get the garbage collected under a XXX domain name. Maybe the “self policing” Internet folks could help us there?

As a mom, this sounds like a good thing BUT, I’m learning how some legislation that is passed to protect us actually opens doors to “go just little further” with legislation to squash privacy in the future.
The predators WILL find a way to get their “fix” no matter what they have to do.
This is a hard call, but I’d have to vote against it the way it’s worded right now.

More fluff – sounds good but also sounds like just another piece of legislation to just to be able to say “I did something about child porn on the Internet”.

Hire some techno savvy internet stalkers track down the child porn perverts and subject them to horror of horrors WATER BOARDING!!!!!! :-)

Unfortunately this is a good example of the government using a noble cause as an excuse to spy on everyone and dictate how long internet companies must retain records (for spying purposes).

Just another government attempt to extract more freedoms under the guise of a good deed.

scroogle.org

This is a way for the RIAA to track people. Figures for a Republcan from Texas.