Sample Letter on preventing internet censorship
Dear Congressman:
I am writing to you to request your assistance in preventing internet
censorship. Please cut funds to every agency which engages in censorship of
the internet, and block any legislation which would allow any type of internet
censorship.
The excuses for censorship of the internet are quite different from what is
actually being done. We are told that the goal is to prevent spam, pornography,
fraud, sexual predation, and terrorism etc.
With the news of a Department of Homeland Security official having been
arrested for internet solicitation of a minor, the idea of allowing DHS to
censor the internet under the guise of preventing such activity is a little
like sending the fox to guard the henhouse.
Anyone can test internet censorship for themselves, if they have one example
of a censored message. There are certain email messages (most of which are
critical of internet censorship, the Department of Homeland Security, or of
violations of civil liberties) which will CONSISTENTLY be treated as spam, and
blocked from normal delivery.
"Filters" are being installed by individual internet service providers.
The censorship is NOT private.
These filters are being installed as a result of GOVERNMENT PRESSURE.
The Internet Service Provider is now being told that they are now regulated
by the Federal Communications Commission;
which in turn, receives guidelines from the
Department of Homeland Security.
The protocols for these "filters" were developed from guidelines from The
Department of Homeland Security.
OF COURSE there is no legitimate
justification for Federal Communications Commission regulation of the
internet; since it does not use shared air ways.
The summation of all of this is clandestine censorship of the internet.
The ISP's are being FORCED to install the Department of Homeland Security's
"filter", web pages are being shut done, and search engines are being required
to limit certain types of searches.
These programs are purported to stop spam, but it truth, is used to halt
political dissent.
One such program is called the “Captcha Project at Carnegie Mellon
University. The program is installed on the Yahoo main email server. It is my
belief that funds for the program may be budgeted through the FCC, now under
the Department of Homeland Security. Certain specific messages as described
above, are stopped from normal delivery by this program regardless of whether
the message is sent to one individual, several email addresses, or to a group,
which would clearly indicate that the program is not about spam, but is a
sinister form of political censorship.
Please do not allow our first amendment rights to be taken from us in the
name of security. Again, please cut funds to all censorship of the internets
(such as the Captcha Project at Carnegie Mellon University), and block any
attempt at internet censorship.
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