> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004864.php > > The World's Worst Internet Laws Sneaking Through the Senate > August 03, 2006 > > [Update: The Cybercrime Treaty was ratified by the Senatelate last > night. The U.S. will now have to comply to requests for assistance from > fifteen countries, and growing.] > > The Convention on Cybercrime is a sweeping treaty that has been waiting > in the wings of the Senate for nearly three years. Now the > administration is putting pressure on the Senate to ratify it in the > next two days. If it does, it would mean the U.S. would enforce not > just our own, but the rest of the world's bad Net laws. Call your > Senator now, and ask them to hold its ratification. > > The treaty requires that the U.S. government help enforce other > countries' "cybercrime" laws - even if the act being prosecuted is not > illegal in the United States. That means that countries that have laws > limiting free speech on the Net could oblige the F.B.I. to uncover the > identities of anonymous U.S. critics, or monitor their communications > on behalf of foreign governments. American ISPs would be obliged to > obey other jurisdiction's requests to log their users' behavior without > due process, or compensation. > > The treaty came into force last year on the international front, but > not in the US, where it needs to be ratified by Congress first. So far, > ratification has been blocked thanks to a "hold" placed by conservative > lawmakers. But Republican senators this week are now being heavily > pressured by the administration to drop their objections, and let it > fly. > > Ratifying the Cybercrime treaty would introduce not just one bad > Internet law into America's lawbooks, but invite the enforcement of all > the world's worst Internet laws. Call your senators now, and tell them > to hold this invasive treaty at bay. >
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