Open Season On the Web?
Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited:
Hawaii’s legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit. Its House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing this morning on a new bill requiring the creation of virtual dossiers on state residents. The measure, H.B. 2288, says “Internet destination history information” and “subscriber’s information” such as name and address must be saved for two years.
Note also that Hawaii’s Senate majority whip – Democrat Jill Tokuda – had this to say: “I was asked to introduce the Senate companions on these Internet security related bills by Representative Kymberly Marcos Pine after her own personal experience in this area.”
Might Kymberly Pine’s “experience in this area” have anything to do with speech and political sentiments she’d like to monitor or outright curb?
SOPA, PIPA, and now this. Will other states follow? Never underestimate our elected officials when it comes to curtailing your freedom…
UPDATE: Incidentally, Pine is a Republican. Her ardent accuser and web tormentor is not exactly popular. Sounds like someone wants to perform a little surgery with a machete here.
(Cross-posted at Rhetorican.com)
Categories: Internet
It looks to me like Pyne and others are cyber-clues and have been taken in by a sociopathic scam artist passing as a Web designer.
They allowed him to work on their Websites, but he stole from them and then hijacked their sites and demanded more more money. Small amounts (a few thousand dollars), so they didn’t prosecute.
This emboldened him to further scams, and the current attack on Rep. Pine.
Having no clue about the technical side of this mess, they are blaming “the Internet” rather than this criminal.
Dumb. They need to wake up and learn something about what they’re doing.
Which is true of everyone that employs the Web for business. Lots of people have paid someone to set up a Web site for them, or acquire a domain name – without bothering to check whose name the domain is in, or secure the Web site against the “expert”.
Should be “cyber-clueless” in the first line…
So- one aggravated woman with power proposes burning down the neighborhood because she’s got roaches in her own kitchen? You couldn’t ask for a more cogent argument against democracy.
H.L. Mencken said it best- ” The sort of people who demand the law enforce their ideas are invariably the sort of people whose ideas are idiotic.”
Has Pine commented on this herself?
Isn’t Hawaii overwhelmingly a Democratic state (last big Republican victory I remember was in a 3 way where two Dems split their side of the ticket)? Why would they do this favor for a Republican? Or is it blame shifting? Or is it, “I don’t want this to happen to me” and a matter of ruling class solidarity.
Hawaii lacks the money to keep the public schools open, but they can find the money to pay for this? Is the plan to furlough the teachers for a few more days to cover it?
Put it on the ballot. If Hawaii wants to pay for it, they can. My guess is it will go down in flames. I’d vote against anyone who went along with this on principle.