"Big Brother, Watch Me!" Award
(On the Internet privacy bill in congress)
There is no right to privacy. So, I don’t really have a problem with this and see many potential benefits. First, if the collected information is made available to the public, it could kill off the Internet porn business. Also, it would encourage good behavior, the way we used to.
A Christian nation is meant to be led by its Godly male heads of families—each of whom lives under the scrutiny of his community. The community, in turn, has an obligation to hold men accountable for their actions, just as men are charged to hold accountable the members of the households they lead.
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I bet GodAndCountryFirst would be singing a different tune when its his Internet-related dirty laundry being put up for public consumption. To say nothing of all the famous pastors and whatnot who'd inevitably be caught doing things they condemn in public.
Honestly I think that might be a good thing in the long run - it would force people to acknowledge that nobody is a perfect, saintly being who does no wrong, and over time we might actually be able to look at people as more than collections of their worst vices (I know, crazy). But there's no denying that the interim period would be pretty terrible for all involved.
First of all: Leave my porn alone, dammit! it's my release for not having a partner, and you really don't want a bunch of sexually frustrated people at your door when they find out you support this mess, and porn DOES go away. (not that it will.. what other place will GOP politicians get their gay, "shemale", and kiddie porn?)
Two: At the risk of sounding like a libertarian: Those who are willing to give up liberty for safety (or in your case, morality) deserve neither.
it could kill off the Internet porn business
There is no right to privacy.
Any time I see anyone making that claim, I expect them to put up or shut up - and get a CCTV camera network inside their house, monitored by the police and/or other law enforcement agencies 24/7, with at least one camera in every room. And yes, I mean EVERY room.
So the print porn business would start up again? Ok
Something tells me he would be singing a different tune if obama was still in power. Antichrist NWO big brother etc etc.
At least if this happend the public could finaly see the pervisions of all their pastors and politicians.
Oh, please fuck off. The right to privacy can be infringed upon, but not, say, the Second Amendment (which I'm almost positive that you support)? Bullshit. This is not a Christian nation. Speaking as someone who's currently single, taking away porn would seriously piss me and a shit-ton of others off tremendously. You really, really don't want a whole lot of frustrated, angry people pissed off at you.
@DB97531:
At least if this happend the public could finaly see the pervisions of all their pastors and politicians.
Agreed. If there is an upside to this bill, it'd be that.
I reckon this guy believes there's nothing Big Brother can learn God doesn't already know, and since fundies are fond of telling everyone how irrelevant our puny material world is, why should he care anyway?
GCHQ. With it's total scanning & interception of the entire telecommunications system, sees all: and knows all. Omnipresent and Omniscient, if you will:
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Say hello to God .
And he's [i]British[/i]. [/Al Murray (Pub Landlord)]
We do have a state religion here after all...!
Strange how the porn business - for example: Jim Slip, or Ben Dover here in the UK - hasn't been stopped by the above.
That doesn't sound like "god and country first". It sounds like "men first".
We've been that before. Trust me, it doesn't end well for you.
A Christian nation is meant to be led by its Godly male heads of families
Then go somewhere and found your own country.
Also, these nitwads don't realize that the whole internet privacy bill will also affect them.
Look, there are three options: You can have a universal right to privacy, you can have universal transparency, or you can have some sort of in-between muddle like most societies have now. There are advantages and drawbacks to each approach.
But what you cannot have is full transparency for the general public and full privacy for the "elites" (however one's society defines that). While said elites are generally salivating at the prospect, the result would be a disaster in the long run. (Well, unless the elites were completely benevolent and had a better idea of what people really need than most of the general public. Haha yeah right.)
The telecom companies are trying to set themselves up as the elites in that disaster scenario. A lot of politicians and billionaires are willing to support that as long as the elites include them too.
If instead you want fight for the universal transparency thing, then this is not the place to start. Start at the top and work down. And do this knowing that very little of humanity has been sold on the idea yet, and perhaps never will.
OK then. We will monitor you, churches, and other Christian organisations. Don't like it? Too bad there is no right to privacy. Also it doesn't encourage good behavior only paranoia. And it's a damn good thing we're not a Christian nation. We're secular as the first amendment and Treaty of Tripoli establish. And I bet you're all for small government amirite?
"the collected information is made available to the public"
DATANADO.
Some rural meth dealers about to be caught dump most of their meth stash into a small lake that's already a mess from minerals seeping up from the ground and decades of all sorts of waste being thrown into it. The water solidifies over time into a pit of crystals looking like ping-pong balls the color of blue ballpoint pen ink.
A strong wind blows across the ex-lake, the friction releasing an energy charge in the 'blue ping-pong balls', bending the passing wind into a whirlwind that sucks up 5-6 dozen 'blue ping-pong balls'. The rotating winds die down after not long, leaving a swirling energy vortex that eventually becomes 1.5 - 2 miles high and 3/4 of a mile across.
This 'energy tornado' vortex exerts a magnetism-like pulling force that doesn't just attract magnetic materials but glass, plastic and rubber as well. If any devices like smartphones, tablets, laptops, digital cameras, desktop computers etc. comes within pulling range, data stored on it - text messages, photos, videos, PIN codes.. - are downloaded into the Datanado. And about a minute after download is finished from the device in question, the data from it is transmitted to any other device that can receive it within 200 times funnel diameter.
Do you really think they're gonna expose all the Bible Belt porn surfers? They already know the most congested areas of it are there.
If anything all illegal activity will increase, tied suspiciously to that bill is reducing ones protection against hackers. Now who the Hell is that going to help?
You sound just like Rick Santorum when he claimed there is no right to privacy under the Constitution. While the entire legal system knows about the 4th Amendment. But I never saw Rick or anyone else claiming "no right to privacy" volunteering to have surveillance cameras set up inside their homes. People like this should really read 1984 and have someone familiar with the book nearby to explain the ideas and some of the bigger words to them.
And this quote really makes me curious to see what's on GACF's hard drive. Seems like that, without exception, those who decry porn the loudest are the ones who are viewing it the most.
Oh, geez, this information isn't being sold so you can snoop on your neighbors. It's being sold so big corporations can better target you for advertising. Given the role that targeted advertising and paid stories played in putting Trump in the White House, this also potentially represents a great threat to our democracy. Mixed regime, here we come!
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