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Lamar Smith's revenge: The "Big Brother is watching" bill

John Madden

resident policy guy
Honestly if you are doing nothing wrong

hrm, yes, let's just trust the government to not abuse the hell out of this power like they totally didn't abuse the hell out of the PATRIOT Act for the past 10-odd years
 

Abstinence Pistols

Well-Known Member
And don't worry; your internet history won't be visible to everyone; it requires the internet service providers to "store the information securely". You know, because that worked out so well for Sony.

In all fairness, Sony had all their passwords stored in plain text, not even encrypted or anything.

That being said, this is still a terrible idea, and like you said, it's akin to killing a mosquito with a rocket launcher.
 

blaze boy

Aka SamuraiDon
Oops, guess i misunderstood. I meant children watching porn. Which is still illegal.

The bill isn't about stopping children looking at porn, because kids will be kids, but rather stopping Child pornographers AKA paedophile.
 

Jb

Tsun in the streets
Plus I sure it's not even illegal for kids to watch porn, they just can't buy it.
 

Wolf Prince

Lycan Seraph
The bill isn't about stopping children looking at porn, because kids will be kids, but rather stopping Child pornographers AKA paedophile.

Pedofiles are actually a sexually oriented people to children, as long as they don't harm kids like putting a sexual image of a little girl BUT made out of the computer instead of a real girl that shoudln't be illegal, i mean if gays got legalised why can't pedofiles be? i mean as long as they don't harm real kids this shoudln't be illegal
 

Espectra

The Ghost Type Guru!
In all honesty, I can safely say this Lamar Smith really likes to stuff his nose in people's business.

I think he is writing the bills with good intentions at first, but privacy should be considered a first world right in my opinion.

I watched the video by TotalHalibut on SOPA and the worst part is that most of the people who are voting on these laws aren't even very active users of the internet, which saddens me.
 

Sadib

Time Lord Victorious
Bronies should be the first ones who are suspected of being pedophiles. Next will be the adults hanging around Pokémon forums.

How come this congressman hasn't been assassinated yet?
 

Poke Trainer J

Well-Known Member
Has ACTA already passed into law cause I tried finding the info on Google and couldn't get a confirmation about it...
 

Chaos Emperor

No hope.....
this really needs to go to the supreme court, have them read between the lines to make sure that this isnt SOPA in disguise (a few people here mentioned thats what this likely is), and say if its constitutional, which of course it isnt. tell me with a straight face spying on innocent people without probable cause is constitutional.
 

ParaChomp

be your own guru
Stay far away from anime forums. You never if someone will have an avatar of a young girl whose round butt and/or ample bosom is the main focus.
 

Josiah

is your favorite
Pedofiles are actually a sexually oriented people to children, as long as they don't harm kids like putting a sexual image of a little girl BUT made out of the computer instead of a real girl that shoudln't be illegal, i mean if gays got legalised why can't pedofiles be? i mean as long as they don't harm real kids this shoudln't be illegal
The difference between homosexuality and pedophilia(/bestiality) is that it's an agreement between consenting adults in one case and an adult using a person who can't even legally consent in another case.

By making it legal for them to view kiddie porn, you're basically telling them "hey, it's okay that you want to **** someone who can't even be trusted to live on their own yet". We can draw the line between virtual and real people, sure, but do we really need to let people think that crossing that line isn't as bad as it really, actually is?
 

Shiny Mew2

Gunshow
The internet must have killed this guy's dog or something for him to hate it this bad.
 

blaze boy

Aka SamuraiDon
Pedofiles are actually a sexually oriented people to children, as long as they don't harm kids like putting a sexual image of a little girl BUT made out of the computer instead of a real girl that shoudln't be illegal, i mean if gays got legalised why can't pedofiles be? i mean as long as they don't harm real kids this shoudln't be illegal

Does a 4 year old child fully understand the concept of being in a sexual relationship?

No they are not, and that is why paedophilia is illegal because children are vulnerable and can be force into doing something that they themselves don't understand and the paedophile know this and prey on their innocents.
 

Malanu

Est sularus oth mith
Let's let them listen to our phone conversations and install cameras in our house, too. After all, we have nothing to hide, right?
Exactly. They'd get to watch me play Dragon Age or Pokemon, taking a crap or taking a shower and if they wanna watch me with my wife, then frankly let 'em see how lovin' is done right!

(Ok so maybe I would be a bit self conscious for the lovin' part, but seriously, Whatcha got to hide Jigglychu?

I may have a different perspective because I spent the better part of 2 1/2 years living in an open squad bay with 30 other Marines. You get next to no privacy living that way!

eBay Huckster said:
hrm, yes, let's just trust the government to not abuse the hell out of this power like they totally didn't abuse the hell out of the PATRIOT Act for the past 10-odd years
Did they abuse the Patriot act, or did they do what was needed and some people didn't like it.
 
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iCakeify

Luxray Fanboy
If this goes through, I hope it's only in USA... cause i want mah pr0nz to mahselv
 

Malanu

Est sularus oth mith
Bronies should be the first ones who are suspected of being pedophiles. Next will be the adults hanging around Pokémon forums.

How come this congressman hasn't been assassinated yet?
You and me both Jb... Just for different reasons! ;)
 

Malanu

Est sularus oth mith
Sounds more like they didn't follow procedure, which is less an abuse of power than it's being stupid!

My question still hold up. IF the FBI Investigated ME I have nothing to fear of them snooping around, so what do you have to hide?
 
Democracy and freedom are wasted on people like you.
 
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