[BC] The "Net Neutrality" proper position to have ??

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

And the government, with the aid of the ISPs already engage in entrapment.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9899151-38.html

Google provides a service to companies to log and Email to those companies any time the company name is used anywhere in plain text. This allows companies to know how customers feel about their products, how they are responding to new corporate information releases, etc., --all good stuff, until you realize that this information can (read may) also go to the government or anyone who is willing to pay. I could pay and anytime "Mark Humphrey" was mentioned anywhere, I would know.

Because of the sheer volume of information on the "information superhighway," there was some security by obscurity. You and your doings are just hidden in the rest of the noise. Not anymore. If some government agency wants to obtain "probable cause" to get a court-order to grab your PC, they just hire Google to log the lookups your PC has been doing in the last few months!

At one time I published a BLOG about this:

http://richardbjohnson.blogspot.com/2008/05/cleaning-old-data-from-your-pc.html

I received a "friendly" Email containing this:

You have provided a software program whose primary function appears to be the deletion or overwriting data which may be essential for the prosecution of criminal cases. As such, you may be in violation of the amendments to FRCP 16, 26, 33, 34, 37 and 45, relating to electronically stored data. Deliberately destroying data which may be useful as evidence in a criminal proceeding is a violation of law for which you may be prosecuted under several statutes.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Humphrey" <mark3xy at gmail.com>

The telecoms have also demonstrated that they want control over the
content you post.   How many of you would allow the government (in its
sole discretion) to decide whether your messages are "cruel or racist"
or "objectionable for any reason" and then threaten to cut off service
if you don't watch what you say?  Yet, many telecom providers already
impose these conditions -- run a search in Google for examples.   How
much further are we willing to trust them?