Italian MEP Wants To Eliminate Anonymity On the Internet

m94mni writes "The European Parliament wants to monitor your Internet searches for child porn offenders, as previously reported. The declaration was adopted yesterday, and in an interview with the Swedish news outlet Europaportalen.se, the Italian MEP behind the declaration, Tiziano Motti, shares his views on the Internet and anonymity. In essence, Motti wants to completely eliminate anonymity on the Internet. 'Each upload of text, images, or video clips must be traceable by the authorities', says Motti. This is in line with the secretive UN initiative Q6/17, revealed two years ago." The doublespeak here seems to go beyond the imprecision of automated translation.

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It seems Motti is saying (judging by the translation) that he wants data retention of the IPs of kiddy porn uploaders, not retention of IPs of people who search for certain things on search engines. He specifically mentions Facebook and Youtube. Problem is, no law would be made that only requires retention of IPs that were connected to uploading kiddy porn (since any site could save money and work around the law by not trying to detect it as it's uploaded, and not storing IPs to later connect to flagged content). The only 'effective' solution is to keep every uploader's IP for a long time -- think of how long the TSA holds on to laptops, that's how long they need. The few non-trolls uploading kiddy porn to websites will move to non-EU servers (as if they didn't already) or another protocol.

Now, every insult becomes grounds for a defamation trial, with a guarantee of finding a defendant! Try not to say anything bad about royalty or religious icons, either. Uncovering astroturfers isn't made any easier, so this won't negatively affect the government/corporate overlords.

I swear politicians see 10 different moles to whack, figure out a way to whack 1 of them, and say "see I'm doing something about the mole problem" while ignoring the collateral damage, and the rat problem, rabbit problem, etc.
It'd help alot if there didn't exist such universal revulsion to any practice or a group associated with it; some sanity to combat the anti-paedo witchhunt will go a long way preventing these kind of directives. I think the average person realizes that terrorism is really rare in western countries and there likely isn't a terrorist living next door, so maybe the panic will die down there first. But then we'll need a new ideological bogeyman, wonder what it'll be next. Pirate party politics maybe?