Comments on: House Passes SAFE Act — Do You Feel Safer? http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Stephen Littau http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/#comment-46942 Stephen Littau Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:24:50 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/#comment-46942 What’s even more disturbing is that only 2 people voted against it (Ron Paul and Paul Broun). This is yet another example for why we need the Read the Bills Act.

]]> By: SAFE Bill Doesn't Solve Any Problems | Hear ItFrom.Us http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/#comment-46941 SAFE Bill Doesn't Solve Any Problems | Hear ItFrom.Us Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:20:57 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/#comment-46941 [...] read a lot of bellyaching today about the SAFE Act.  Mostly people are worried that free WiFi access will disappear from [...]

]]> By: Kai MacTane http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/#comment-46934 Kai MacTane Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:53:19 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/#comment-46934 When the news article linked to says “the House overwhelmingly voted for the legislation, sending it now to the Senate” (emphasis added), the line “you’re now legally required to do so” is, at the very best, premature. Nobody is required to do squat until the Senate also passes it (and Bush signs it, but that’s probably a given).

The companion bill in the Senate has been referred to the Judiciary committee. I’ve just looked on the ACLU’s web site and the EFF’s site to try to find easy action pages dealing with this, but they seem not to have updated for the Senate-level fight yet.

However, since the Senate Judiciary Committee is currently embroiled in the whole “give the telecoms retroactive immunity for helping the government spy on everyone” scandal, the EFF has a page for contacting your senator about that issue. I’m sure it would be easy to use some of the ACLU’s talking points about the House version when calling your senator — especially if your senator should happen to sit on the Judiciary Committee.

]]> By: somebody http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/#comment-46928 somebody Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:58:43 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/#comment-46928 I’m gonna start distributing stick-man porn. That’ll get the politicians riled up! One of them is under 18.

]]> By: TanGeng http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/#comment-46927 TanGeng Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:53:29 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/12/07/congress-passes-safe-act-do-you-feel-safer/#comment-46927 You know this has virtually the effect of shutting down or making cost prohibitive all public WI-FI spots. There has to be some big tel-comm support. I know it sounds like a conspiracy, but what the hell. I don’t see how it makes anyone safer and it has the effect of destroying access to Wi-Fi.

“It’s for the children” benefits the big ass tel-comm corporations.

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