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Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) introduced legislation on Tuesday meant to halt the use of Department of Defense (DOD) computer networks by users for sharing or procuring pornographic images of children.
The End National Defense Network Abuse (END Network Abuse) was introduced in the wake of in[sic] an investigation called "Project Flicker" carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This investigation identified over 5,000 individuals, including many affiliated with DOD, who were subscribed to child porn websites.
The Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service subsequently identified hundreds of DOD-affiliated individuals as suspects involved in accessing child pornography, several of whom used government devices to view and share the images.
Why does this require a new law?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @11:57PM (3 children)
Governments are people too.
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Tuesday July 09 2019, @12:02AM
They're made of people, and if we intruded into the private and personal effects of government employees, we'd be crossing a line. But the tools by which governance happens? That's "our" property. Rei publica.
Like, there's no reasonable expectation of privacy when doing government business. At all. I got fucking FOIA any federal government employee's emails if I could fill out a short document explaining the public interest.
It's the whole thing Hillary(and Bush's people, and Trump's people) were avoiding with private email servers.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday July 09 2019, @12:27AM (1 child)
Do you mean, just like corporations?
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @12:49AM
http://www.freedom-school.com/the-united-states-is-a-corporation.html [freedom-school.com]