The only logs that should be kept are ones that are abolutly nessacary to the running of the ISP. Let's face it, unless you meet someone from the net, there is nothing somebody can do online to actually hurt you. Written text is just words, but it so nobodies business where anyone goes on the net, what they do or anything else. There are many ways to catch criminals, and having a proactive big brother is not the best way. One other thing, the tracting of users, only relates to the machine that is online, there is no way of knowing who is actually using the computer. Anyone could be, on someone elses acount. As far as children being harm, the answer there is have stiffer punishments once the crime is committed. Otherwise the continuing trend of giving up our rights to feel safer and not punishing criminals will just keep spirialing out of control.
Must remember that even though the net is a social as well as communication driven medium. There are a lot of underpending problems with people spending all their time online and not socializing in traditional ways. As far as political activism, what can we do really. Besides an all out revolt( which would not be a bad thing), the government is so corupt that even voting is unlikly to change things.
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The only logs that should be kept are ones that are abolutly nessacary to the running of the ISP. Let's face it, unless you meet someone from the net, there is nothing somebody can do online to actually hurt you. Written text is just words, but it so nobodies business where anyone goes on the net, what they do or anything else. There are many ways to catch criminals, and having a proactive big brother is not the best way. One other thing, the tracting of users, only relates to the machine that is online, there is no way of knowing who is actually using the computer. Anyone could be, on someone elses acount. As far as children being harm, the answer there is have stiffer punishments once the crime is committed. Otherwise the continuing trend of giving up our rights to feel safer and not punishing criminals will just keep spirialing out of control.
Must remember that even though the net is a social as well as communication driven medium. There are a lot of underpending problems with people spending all their time online and not socializing in traditional ways. As far as political activism, what can we do really. Besides an all out revolt( which would not be a bad thing), the government is so corupt that even voting is unlikly to change things.