McCain wants to regulate the Internet
This is what happens when people in congress, who have very little if any idea how the internet works, try to regulate it. Sen. McCain has proposed legislation that would basically require EVERY ONE ON THE INTERNET, to report illegal activity.
According to the proposed legislation, the following are required to file reports: any Web site with a message board; any chat room; any social-networking site; any e-mail service; any instant-messaging service; any Internet content hosting service; any domain name registration service; any Internet search service; any electronic communication service; and any image or video-sharing service.
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December 20th, 2006 at 8:15 am
We wouldn’t want the tubes getting clogged with crime! Jokes aside, this is the same thing that happened with the Net Neutrality legislation, in fact most legislation. The politicians become the cheerleaders of the highest bidder (in the case of NN, it was the telecomm companies) or they pander half-baked schemes to scrape the barrel for votes.
What we’re seeing here is the Republican party trying to distance itself from Mark Foley’s internet scandal. I wouldn’t worry too much about it though… regulating the internet is like herding cats. Next to impossible.
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Cheers.
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Tell that to the Chinese.