Well, since we are using an online communication systems such as Yahoo groups, Blogger, OurMedia and Blip.tv I don't think it is off topic.
This is why librarians hate with a passion "The Patriot Act." I ain't to thrilled with it either. Doesn't matter if it 5 or 11 years old a bad law is a bad law. As we seek to extend freedom of speech you have an equal and opposite force trying to contain it. Where is the $$$ going to come from? Who is watching the watcher? How free is free speech when you know you can be intercepted from showing your vlog? Do you trust your government? Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com ***************** --- In [email protected], Jan McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hope this isn't too off-topic. > > "The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications" > > "It would require universities to re-engineer their networks so that > every Net access point would send all communications not directly onto the Internet, but first to a network operations center where the data packets could be stitched together into a single package for delivery to law enforcement, university officials said." > > From the NY Times <URL: > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/technology/23college.html? > ex=1287720000&en=36556cd12f8fc287&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss > > > Oh dear. > > Jan > > -- > "It isn't done alone. Pay more." > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/roadnode101/ - education > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com - motion > http://blog.urbanartadventures.com - sound > http://vlogpresskit.blogspot.com - media > http://the-hold.blogspot.com - literature > . > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
