{"id":2503,"date":"2009-02-10T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2009-02-10T11:17:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:17:17","slug":"sen-feinstein-wants-to-see-your-packets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/02\/10\/sen-feinstein-wants-to-see-your-packets\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Feinstein Wants To See Your Packets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got this from Public Knowledge<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hollywood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lobbyists are running all over the Hill to sneak in a copyright filtering provision into the stimulus package. The amendment [presented by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) will] allow ISPs to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d child pornography and copyright infringement through network management techniques. The amendment is very, very controversial for a couple of reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. First, infringement can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be found through \u00e2\u20ac\u0153network management\u00e2\u20ac\u009d techniques. There are legal uses for copyrighted works even without permission of the owner.<\/li>\n
  2. Second, it would require Internet companies to examine every bit of information everyone puts on the Web in order to find those allegedly infringing works, without a hint of probable cause. That would be a massive invasion of privacy, done at the request of one industry, violating the rights of everyone who is online.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Right now, we need you to contact a few key Senators: Majority Leader Harry Reid, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee Daniel Inouye, and Chairman of the Commerce Committee Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Finance Committee Max Baucus, and senior member of the Appropriations Committee Senator Barbara Mikulski, and tell them to leave out this controversial provision.<\/p>\n

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    Click here<\/a> for Public Knowledge’s suggested letter\/fax.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, California, can you please do us a favor and make Feinstein your governor so the rest of us don’t have to suffer her any more?\u00c2\u00a0 And don’t give me any noise about what a bad governor she’d be.\u00c2\u00a0 We already know you have no standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Just got this from Public Knowledge: Hollywood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lobbyists are running all over the Hill to sneak in a copyright filtering provision into the stimulus package. The amendment [presented by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) will] allow ISPs to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d child pornography and copyright infringement through network management techniques. The amendment is very, very controversial for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,8,14],"tags":[56,52,54,53,55],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-policy","category-politics","category-tech","tag-amendment","tag-copyright","tag-feinstein","tag-infrastructure","tag-stimulus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t