Ask by DemsKillEconomy: Is the government trying to give socialized internet access so they can monitor people better?
I was trying to think about why the Democrats kept pusing for government socialized internet access and based off of the other behavior of Obama, Bush, and even Clinton I realized why.

The private companies providing access makes it harder for the government to monitor who searches what when and to more heavily monitor the internet.

One of my customers used to work for the White House under clinton in the data mining department. He said that when people would search the internet they could monitor everything they surf including bank and credit card information. I was shocked by this, but it brought everything together for me.

This can be effective in combating terrorism, but is a massive invasion of privacy if misused.

For those of you that were afraid of Bush listening in on your phone conversations, this should really scare you and is much more invasive to me. What if you write something they do not like? They are watching everything.

The Clinton administration consistently championed the
> right of government employees to stick their noses
> almost anywhere — into people’s email, car, house, or
> personal effects. Clintonites set off one false alarm
> after another to justify extending government’s right
> to intrude. The administration consistently sought to
> exploit technological development in order to maximize
> government’s control over the citizenry.

> A 1998 ACLU report observed that the Clinton
> administration had
>
> engaged in surreptitious surveillance, such as
> wiretapping, on a far greater scale than ever
> before…. The Administration is using scare tactics
> to acquire vast new powers to spy on all Americans.
> On April 16, 1993, the Clinton administration revealed
> that the National Security Agency had secretly
> developed a new microchip known as the Clipper Chip. A
> White House press release announced “a new initiative
> that will bring the Federal Government together with
> industry in a voluntary program to improve the
> security and privacy of telephone communications while
> meeting the legitimate needs of law enforcement.” This
> was practically the last time that the word
> “voluntary” was used.
>
> The Clipper Chip presumed that it should be a crime
> for anyone to use technology that frustrates curious
> government agents. The ACLU noted,
>
> The Clipper Chip proposal would have required every
> encryption user (that is, every individual or business
> using a digital telephone system, fax machine, the
> Internet, etc.) to hand over their decryption keys to
> the government, giving it access to both stored data
> and real-time communications. This is the equivalent
> of the government requiring all home-builders to embed
> microphones in the walls of homes and apartments.
> Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy
> Information Center, observed, “You don’t want to buy a
> set of car keys from a guy who specializes in stealing
> cars.” When the federal National Institute for
> Standards and Technology formally published the
> proposal for the new surveillance chip, fewer than one
> percent of the comments supported the plan.
>
> The administration eventually abandoned its Clipper
> campaign but stepped up its attacks on purveyors of
> encryption software.
For those of you that want to know what I mean by Government run aka
“socialized internet”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97692002

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/obama_says_internet_key_to_eco.php

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/72354

Featured answer:

Answer by everythingspeachy2000
They already do through the library. ACORN does it. I know two people who have accounts FREE thanks to ACORN and you access it through your HOUSE not the library.

Answer by Charles Veidt
Please cite a source indicating “socialized Internet access.”

Thanks for the links. Good to see that the innocuous is still useful as fodder for conspiracy theories.

Answer by Alex R
You know yahoo downloads your info, google it. i found that out hear. I started researching it because every time i was on yahoo not loading any thing on the web page, just text, my downloads would slow down. As soon as as i went to a different site my downloads spead up.

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