Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Don't Trust Your Government

This is why civil liberties are important, because evil people like Gonzales want to turn the US into a police state. He wants all ISPs to retain records of what you do on the internet for 2 years. He claims this is so they can fight child porn. Let's think about this.

We could probably eliminate child pornography if we put a police officer inside every house all the time. This would clearly make children safer and yet we don't do this and no one is stupid enough to propose it. Yet having ISPs keep records of everything you do online (every email, web site, download, purchase, chat, image looked at, etc.) is essentially the same thing. So Gonzales' argument is we'll only use this info for suspected child pornographers. But what's the guarantee? It's supposed to be warrants, but we already know the administration doesn't always get warrants.

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