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Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering

Posted by samzenpus on from the welcome-to-your-new-child-friendly-web dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children. Their statement came at the end of a Senate hearing in which civil liberties groups were not invited."

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  1. Ah this old chestnut by skinfitz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I predicted this would happen years ago (purely because the free flow of information is not good from a government perspective - makes it very hard to lie to the public), then they tried to get it through, and to my genuine surprise Clinton vetoed it as 'unconstitutional' - he got my respect for that. It was shortly after that he got impeached for getting a BJ (which only earned him more respect...) It's the thin end of the wedge. Once you have the tools in place to filter internet traffic for one type of content, then it becomes trivial to use that infrastructure to control any content you wish. This is a Very Bad Idea.