The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned.
http://news.com.com/Justice+Department+takes+aim+at+image-sharing+sites/2100-1028_3-6163679.html
Oh great.
sage so the US wont see
The government guy
trolling the great free interwebs
kiss constitution goodbye
your crappy poem
has too many syllables
fatuous haiku
Ok everyone! Teh police has determine the content in this thread is illegal and chose to investigate. Let me see them IDs.
Heaven.
If you add anonymousness to the internets, you get kiddi porn, if you remove it, you get government
I donnu what to believe in
Anonymity doesn't create kiddy porn, dicksmacks who need to be shot create kiddy porn.
fuck off. if you want anonymity you have to turn a blind on some things. you can't talk about voting booth equipment schematics without having terrorist talk about the next attack on the same secure network.
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Spoilers: there was kiddy porn before the internet, now though you just get retarded business guys buying shit online with their credit cards and getting caught.
That's what the government wants you to believe. No government WANTS anonymous, because they believe that they have the absolute right to know what any person is saying on the internet. I doubt this is really even about Child Porn -- that's just an excuse. The real target is the existance of anonymous sites that let a person speak his mind without the government knowing who said what.
And really, very few of the anti-terror or anti-child porn survailance will actually prevent those crimes. The work arounds are fairly simple.
1.) Don't put it on a US server. The US has no control over servers and companies not in the United States. Upload your porn in Tanzania, and it's legal as long as it doesn't violate Tanzanian law.
2.) If a person really wanted to send a message that the government couldn't read, they'd have a lingual code of some sort, or a pre-arranged symbol in a video tape. They aren't so mind bendingly stupid as to post something like "We're gonna blow up the Brooklyn Bridge" in plaintext even in Arabic. They'll disguise it as something else -- a recipe for falaphel, an inquiry about a sick aunt.
In short, spying over the internet probably doesn't work very well. At least not for professionals. You might catch a few stupid people and a few first timers.
I doubt this will happen on sites like 4chan since it is impossible to keep track of every image posted.
Still, I think that instead of this the US government should just keep track of sites in which illegal content has been posted.
I doubt this will happen on sites like 4chan since it is impossible to keep track of every image posted.
The goal isn't really to get 4chan to track users. The goal is to get rid of 4chan, or to make it not anonymous. If the site is hit with a lawsuit because it can't give the IDs of "persons of interest", it won't stay open.
Still, I think that instead of this the US government should just keep track of sites in which illegal content has been posted.
Yes, lets let the government search anywhere it thinks a crime might be committed. In fact, I think they should start with your house. Because I think you're up to something.
This is why police states can get control so easily. The people don't care so long as it's not them being harrassed.
They might as well pass a law demanding constant video survailance in all buildings under the guise of prosecuting violent crime or drug use.