(and 1st, 3rd, 9th, 10th...)
(R) Stuff like this really pisses me off. What a great use of my tax dollars (and tuition dollars). ISPs already monitor all kinds of things for the government, not to mention the government itself. If you send an email even remotely threatening the life of the President (or POTUS, or the leader of the free world, or Bush, or that anti-Christ in Washington, or a bunch of other key words) not only will the Secret Service know about it, but they'll be at your house in a very unhappy, menacing, and, ironically, threatening mood in a matter of hours.
Why don't we just build a system that sends every key anyone types on a computer automatically to a secret government database that only certain secretive bureaucrats get to look at? Wait a sec, maybe it would be a good idea to spend that money on things like roads and healthcare, instead?
Nah, that's dumb. It's much more important for the government to be able to track my EXTREME DISPLEASURE with them, even when my expression is COMPLETELY LEGAL and PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION!!!!
And by the way, the Executive Director of The Center for Technology and Democracy, one of the non-profit groups fighting the FCC decision, is a Dempsey. I should write him and see if we're related :)
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