Sign O the Times
November 27th, 2010 - 8:25 am
The porno scanners and heavy petting pat-downs must be having their desired effect, because Homeland Security is now keeping American travelers safe from… obscure file-sharing sites.
What — you say you’ve never heard of a single incident where dvdcollects.com or amoyhy.com hijacked a plane? OK, so that’s technically true, but they have been hijacking Hollywood profits, and Janet Napolitano knows who butters her bread.
Meanwhile, please continue to fly the friendly skies, confident in the knowledge that the DHS has Steven Spielberg’s back
I’d just like to know where ICE & DHS get their authority to do this. “Badly” written legislation, or “hey, we don’t care if we over step our bounds?”
They derive the authority from Senate Bill 3804…. which hasn’t passed yet!?!? …and, yes I wrote my Congressman, and both Senators.
It seems that DHS and ICE have jumped the gun and will justify this somehow as protecting americans.
I oppose S. 3804: ‘Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act’ because it amounts to internet censorship (a violation of the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution), requires no legal action to precede it’s effects (allowing sites to be targeted without due process), and finally because it undermines one of the technological pillars of the internet at large, the DNS or Domain Name System. Without a reliable, free, and open listing of website names housed by servers in the county which started it all there is a risk of the internet breaking up into multiple smaller internets served by DNS servers outside the U.S. where there is less transparency and more corruption. The exact opposite of the intent of the law. This bill goes well beyond what if needed to maintain free commerce and can be used to implement political censorship in America.
For more information on the effects this law would have I ask you to go to this website
The worst case scenario today will be seen as legal precedent tomorrow.
Maybe they are trying to preemptively shut down how their screeners will be sharing their illegally collected pornoscans.