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Congress Forbids IT from Working with Repressive Regimes
Yes, the very same congress that voted for retroactive immunity for telcos doing the very same thing.
Just to make it perfectly clear how damaging providing personal information to the government can be:
Rep. Chris Smith, R.-N.J., said before the vote. " "Dictatorships need two pillars to survive—propaganda and secret police. The Internet—if misused—gives them both in spades."
"How about the NSA and FBI Representative Smith?"
"Look, we are talking about China and Yahoo! here, it is different."
"How so?"
"China is a repressive regime, they spy on their people, the can arrest them without warrants and detain them indefinitely, they torture people and execute them. China has a horrible civil rights record."
"And the bush administrations civil rights record?"
"Uh, its different. The bush adminstration isn't repressive."
"They do the very same thing, do they not?"
"No, the bush adminstration is protecting the American people. george bush would never misuse intelligence."
"True, quite true Representative Smith. The bush administration has a demonstrated history of being opposed to intelligence in any form."
"Uh?"
"Thank you for clearing that up."