http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/ "A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses, some committee members suggested. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored." This is pretty freaking scary, if this bill becomes law your entire online identity, all your online purchasing and your entire browsing history becomes property of the US Government. This is another wonderful step forward for a country that already has 1 out of every 100 people locked behind bars. If this becomes law I'm dropping my internet connections, both home and cell. It'll be a bitch to rely on public WiFi but I'd rather that then have the cops show up at my door for downloading an episode of Futurama or something.
Everytime I see these things, people always freak out because they don't know two shits about the United States government. 1) Bill goes through the House, which is currently 60-40 ratio majority Republican. 2) Bill then goes through the Senate, which is 55-45 Democrat majority right now. 3) Bill must be approved by the President, who can then veto it and require a 2/3 vote from the Senate. tl;dr, None of this shit would ever go through. Stop not knowing how the government works.
You can't bet on Democrats actually voting on party lines though. Although, I still don't think it would pass in the Senate, I still think it's a bit scary for a country that prides itself on being "free". And don't forget Obama is pretty much right wing and has approved the Patriot Act. America. **** yeah!
This passed 2 to 1, both Biden and Obama have been pushing for stronger anti-piracy measures which this would lead to. What makes you think he would veto this? Shockingly not every issue is staunchly divided by party lines.
Aren't these guys supposed to be busy right now? There's that whole debt ceiling / destroy-the-economy-based-on-dubious-principle thing... Actually, now that I think of it, there was that whole "jobs jobs jobs" thing... Busy, busy!
Obama made a pretty clear statement at the beginning of his presidency that he was for net neutrality. My point was that people need to stop acting like these things have passed and are actual laws before they go through the process.
Net neutrality has to do with restricting content and throttling speed based on content it has nothing to do with what information ISPs are legally required to keep on you. It's two entirely different issues that have nothing to do with each other.
