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Legislation Requiring Tech Industry To Report Terrorist Activity Dropped
itwbennett writes: John Ribeiro reports that 'the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has dropped a provision that would have required Internet companies to report on vaguely-defined terrorist activity on their platforms.' The draft legislation, which was unanimously passed by the Committee in July, was widely derided by the tech industry for its technical difficulty and by users for invasion of privacy.
I doubt the provision would ever have been used anyway. Since the folks who want the data are already siphoning it, this would just let them say that they were, "just helping random ISP fulfill its responsibilities under such-and-such law" the next time their hand was caught in the cookie jar.
We all know how well that idea would have played out. False positives as far as the eye can see. The overreach is still with us, though, and getting worse with every passing year. It seems that politicians lack common sense, and that everything is now a kneejerk reaction to emotions.
This immigration business, for example. Yeah, let's go ahead and allow hundreds of thousands of muslims into America without vetting them. My family in England can tell you what muslims do when they get their cockroach numbers up, they demand change. In England, school systems are literally being forced via political correctness to allow no pork in school lunches, and some schools have even demanded children who bring their own lunches have nothing that could offend the muslim children. Hell no. Western societies need to wake up and see islam for what it really is. It's not just a religion, it's a societal framwork that incorporates religion, attitudes, and law. It's an ideology system that is wholly incompatible with Western mores and values.