Re: Interesting point House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us
Date: December 11, 2007 12:24:15 AM EST
To: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re:   Interesting point  House vote on illegal images sweeps  
in  Wi-Fi, Web sites

Dave

Can some lawyer on IP tell us if this violates, at minimum, the spirit  
of the
Preamble to the Bill of Rights -- not to mention the fourth Amendment?

FROM THE PREAMBLE TO THE BILL OF RIGHTS:

"THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of  
their adopting the
Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction  
or abuse of
its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be  
added: And as
extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best  
ensure the
beneficent ends of its institution."
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html

Happy Holidaze!
Bob

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voice of
opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of  
increasingly
repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its  
citizens and
creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
-- President Harry S. Truman, message to Congress, August 8, 1950

"Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others  
simply because
their consciences tell them to do so."
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Chief United States Prosecutor at the International War Crimes  
Tribunal in
Nuremberg, Germany.



> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> Date: December 7, 2007 2:15:46 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re:     House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-
> Fi, Web sites
>
> David Farber wrote:
>
> One of the things that this statute does is to require reporting even
> when no content laws are being violated.  Rather it requires a
> provider to look for "circumstances that appear to indicate a
> violation".  In other words, a provider is required to report even
> when ambiguous situations and even when no illicit activity is, in
> fact, occuring. This will, of course, lead to providers taking the
> safe route and reporting on even the slightest hint.
>
> And who are these providers that may have to report?  Why it is you
> and me and anybody who runs a wireless access point - or even one of
> the new XO, One Laptop Per Child, units that naturally cooperate to
> form a wireless mesh.
>
>                 --karl--




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