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from the can't-they-find-a-new-excuse-to-steal-my-rights dept.
You have too many rights, so it's time for a little rebalancing:
Internet anonymity should be banned and everyone required to carry the equivalent of a license plate when driving around online. That's according to Erik Barnett, the US Department of Homeland Security's attaché to the European Union.
Writing in French policy magazine FIC Observatoire, Barnett somewhat predictably relies on the existence of child abuse images to explain why everyone in the world should be easily monitored. He tells a story about how a Romanian man offered to share sexually explicit images of his daughter with an American man over email. The unnamed email provider uncovered this exchange and forwarded the IP address of the Romanian to the European authorities and a few days later the man was arrested. Job well done.
Before we have an opportunity to celebrate, however, Barnett jumps straight to terrorism. "How much of the potential jihadists' data should intelligence agencies or law enforcement be able to examine to protect citizenry from terrorist attack?", he poses. The answer, of course, is everything. Then the pitch: "As the use of technology by human beings grows and we look at ethical and philosophical questions surrounding ownership of data and privacy interests, we must start to ask how much of the user's data is fair game for law enforcement to protect children from sexual abuse?"
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 01 2016, @12:00PM
Oooops - forgot to attribute the second half of my post - http://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2012/05/those-who-use-this-benjamin-franklin-quote-deserve-not-to-be-taken-seriously.html [typepad.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @02:01PM
Did you just cite a web page that literally says you should not be taken seriously?
Oh runaway, maybe you should change your name to unaware1956....
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 01 2016, @03:26PM
ROFLMAO - obviously I discount that person's OPINION. He did, however, explain quite well why there is no single version of the quote which you claimed to be flawed. The saying was common, and it was phrased in many ways, even by Franklin, to whom it is attributed. In fact, I could alter the phrasing an any number of ways, and it would still be "authentic".
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.