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*Just my two cents worth*

What would you settle for? I mean think of it, a world free of crime and terrorism and all we would have to give up is the information about what web sites we visited? Hell most web sites would consider that advertising. I will admit that I don't like the idea of someone knowing every move I make on the web as I find it as appalling as I would if they tracked my car's movements with a Lojak. Freedom is inherent with privacy. Where you go, what you read, what you do is your business, and not some over zealous pencil neck geek bucking for a promotion off of reporting your transgressions to his boss in hopes that one day you will screw up. That is in my honest opinion, assuming every one is guilty, it’s only a matter of time before they are caught. No do process, just wait and bust'em heres Big Brother.

It seems to me that if we do not take measures to insure our right to privacy on the web, free from government snooping, or private company snooping, then our rights as a free people, are being limited more than they already have been in the name of security.

Truly your freedom is limited by your economic ability. If you’re a terrorist, you’re not going to be buying super expensive cars, your going to be buying bomb-making stuff. Visiting bombs how to web sites, and talking anti-life trash on forums and instant messaging. Those are the areas that I feel the government should be vigilant in. Not weather or not I visit a site with questionable or objectionable material. Branding me a criminal, Uber bad guy, evil doer, or terrorist all because they have records that I once visited a porn site, most likely by accident, but never the less I was there, therefore I am evil and will burn in hell as a Satan worshiper, is just sick and wrong IMHO. However, that is what it is coming too.

Having my email, IM, web activities, and computer monitored all because I used the words: the President is the bomb when it comes to terrorism and chemical weapons of mass destruction that could kill people visiting the white house while on vacation from Iraq.

That should raze a few flags. Let’s see how long Shrapnel will be done for now.

"Big Brother Is Watching You."

Seriously though, I do feel that some monitoring is necessary for our, and indeed, everyone’s own best interest, but monitoring everyone activities in the hopes that an occasional auditing of the records will yield an occasional bad guy, is absurd at best, and openly ripe for corruption.

"I don't like this mans political views, pull up his ISP records and see if he has done anything illegal. Oh he once visited a porn site that was shut down for having under aged people, arrest him for being a child rapist. Doesn’t matter if he is innocent or not, we will crucify him in the press, and ruin him."

That I do think would become the norm, and that I do honestly believe would reduce what little ideals we have left to ruble. So no, wide spread blanket monitoring of all ISP Subscribers is utter bull *poop* is a really bad idea.