>> If Napster falls, then it could snowball from there, where does it stop
>> then? When everything on the Net is monitored for "illegal activity"?
>> Sounds pretty Orwellian to me!
>
>Steve Z writes:
>Me too. What scares me is that this bothers everyone so much. Sure I
>don't want people reading my private email and seeing what particular
>brand of porn I have on my hard drive, but if it's people I don't even
>know and they're just checking it out to see if I'm planning to bring a
>bunch of guns to school and kill everyone because I don't have any
>friends, I don't really have a problem with that.
>
Are you kidding here? You wouldn't have a problem with the
government (or other agencies) having the right to poke around on your
computer without having to justify their search beforehand? I would.
It's also illegal in the US according to our consitution's fourth
amendment:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not
be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place
to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
A country where the government can monitor its people at whim
and act on what it finds is heading toward Orwellian abuse.
Steve
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