Government Gone Wild

The U.S. House of Representatives pushed through a new bill which on the surface sounds like a good thing. Unfortunately, it's a slippery slope on our way to a "nanny state".

Why is it necessary to legislate requirements to turn what are ethical and moral imperatives into legal requirements?

Why is it necessary for ISPs to begin cataloging and monitoring Internet traffic and transmissions?

Obviously, I have a number of issues about this. The House put this bill through without requiring open comment or visibility into what they are voting on, Democrats used a process to speed this through without review, the bill would be redundant since it's covered by other laws AND obviously went without technical review. The more you attempt to monitor unsavory activity, the more you drive them to use new technologies such as encryption which prevent any visibility.

Click here to read a summary of the SAFE Act of 2007.