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The House Judiciary Committee approved a controversial bill that would require Internet service providers to retain customer data for 12 months.The data retention clause would require ISPs to keep subscriber information including IP addresses for 12 months for use to investigate cases of child exploitation. After two days of intense negotiations, committee members voted 19 to 10 on July 28 to send the amended bill to the full House of Representatives for debate.The data retention bill has the backing of law enforcement organizations and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association. Along with IP addresses, law enforcement will have access to full subscriber records that can be tied to the Websites each person visited as well as any content posted without having to first obtain a court order."When investigators develop leads that might result in saving a child or apprehending a pedophile, their efforts should not be frustrated because vital records were destroyed simply because there was no requirement to retain them," said Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the bill's co-sponsor.The original version of the bill had requested 18 months. Smith offered an amendment to cut time to 12 months, which passed. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., proposed one to strike the data retention requirements from the bill entirely, which failed by a 15-8 vote.
Lofgren argued that a targeted approach is better than a database of "every digital act by every American." She proposed an amendment to require the ISPs to inform the courts when faced with requests from law enforcement, similar to how phone companies currently have to report wiretapping requests. She also sought to specify that ISPs can't add other types of consumer data to be collected and retained.All of Lofgren's amendments were defeated.Lofgren said the bill wouldn't achieve its goals because the data retention applies to only "commercial" providers. Criminals would simply go to libraries or Starbucks coffeehouses and use the Web anonymously, while law-abiding Americans would have their activities recorded, she said. The ISPs would know criminals used library machines but law enforcement would not be able to identify the user, while all the activity from a home computer would be retained, she said.
There are very few problems that cannot be solved with a good taint punching.
From international relations to religious rivalries, from marriage to athlete's foot, whatever the problem a fundy's first solution is usually violence.
we have to make sure this moron doesn't get re-elected. And make sure that the rest of the House knows *why*. If this bullshit kills his career it'll discourage others from pulling the same bullshit later.
Quote from: PastorDave on November 16, 2012, 02:55:21 pmRepent and accept Jesus.I'M SORRY, PASTOR DAVE. I'M AFRAID I CAN'T DO THAT.
Repent and accept Jesus.
He's been a Congressman since 1986. So he's pretty fully entrenched in the political machine.