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House Limits Patriot Act Rules on Library Records

Posted by samzenpus on from the guess-what-I'm-reading dept.

xerid writes "From CNN.COM: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Wednesday to block the FBI and the Justice Department from using the Patriot Act to search library and book store records. Despite a veto threat from President Bush, lawmakers voted 238-187 to block the part of the anti-terrorism law that allows the government to investigate the reading habits of terror suspects.""

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  1. Re:One step forward, two steps back. by raju1kabir · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    is anyone else having trouble with IP bans on slashdot? I get 2 downmods on apost and suddenly I'm IP banned! I only got this posted through Tor, but that's not that much better as slashdot blocks most of the nodes there too. Any help?

    Slashdot bans the transparent web proxy used by almost all DSL connections in Malaysia, so that's an entire nation of nerds excluded. And a very nerdy nation it is - on Friday night the computer malls are more crowded than the discos. Slashdot's loss.

    I just use ssh -D to set up a little socks proxy via a shell account elsewhere; I haven't had any problems that way.

    --
    "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
  2. Re:One step forward, two steps back. by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    PS (OT) -- is anyone else having trouble with IP bans on slashdot? I get 2 downmods on apost and suddenly I'm IP banned! I only got this posted through Tor, but that's not that much better as slashdot blocks most of the nodes there too. Any help?
    Happens to me, too. So, whenever I'm banned, I "metamoderate" all proposed moderations to "unfair".
  3. Alterslash by mahju · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If you get blocked, and want to read try alterslash.
    I use alterslash.org for most of my slash browsing, its all nicely on a single page, and no icky geen.

  4. Look, Ma! I fixed the post.... by Rick+and+Roll · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "The House voted Wednesday to block the FBI and the Justice Department from using the Patriot Act to search library and book store records. Despite a veto threat from King Bush, lawmakers voted 238-187 to block the part of the anti-terrorism law that allows the government to investigate the reading habits of terror suspects."