You know, perhaps what's needed is for the community to develop NEW protocols. The internet has slowly become co-opted by business interests. What passes for free exchange of information these days is pop-up ads, sold-out search engines, and the emergence of propritory protocols (AOL, MSN, etc). With new protocols, could the community control communication instead of gov't/business ?
Shane ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Bruseker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:57 am Subject: RE: (clug-talk) Will Canada's ISPs become spies? > > I find the most offensive part the extensive logging of sites > visited.> Why should my upstream provider be keeping track of > which websites I've > > visited for the past 6 months? To combat terrorism? that's just the > > excuse we've now become accustomed to. I feel invaded just > thinking about > > it. > > > Personally I have a bigger problem with this part: > > "Another section of the proposal says the Canadian Association of > Chiefs of > Police recommends "the establishment of a national database" with > personalinformation about all Canadian Internet users." > > Holy Big Brother, Batman. So, in order to use the Internet I need to > register with the police the same way a sex offender does? They > just assume > I'm going to do something bad? So much for presumption of > innocence. At > least they can argue that a sex offender has a prior history, but > suddenlyI'm a potential criminal because I touched a keyboard? > Just imagine if the > Recording Industry Association of America (or whatever the Canadian > equivalent is, though we tend to just let the US do what they want > in our > country) got their hands on that database - *knock* *knock* "Hi, > we're from > the RCMP, we understand you swap MP3s, we're here to take your > computer."This will go way beyond just "combating terrorism". > Will you need to show > an "Internet user's license" at an internet cafe before they'll > let you on > the computers? Will businesses have to register each of their > staff? Will > the businesses then become part of the grand scheme and also have > to monitor > their staff for "bad surfing"? (Some already do, but many don't). > > Like the story says, we have until Nov 15 to email la- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > our thoughts. Also remember it's postage-free to send a letter to > yourmember of parliament at > > House of Commons > Parliament Buildings > Ottawa, Ontario > K1A 0A6 > > or go to http://www.parl.gc.ca/ to find your representative's > email address > (general format is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Stephen > Harper's is > [EMAIL PROTECTED], to use my own riding as an example). > > Ian > >
