What's stopping big brother from tapping our internet connection?

[mfqr]

i really dont give a fuck. im a law abiding citizen (probably one of the few on here) and i have nothing to hide from the gov't, so what if some jerk off knows what kind of porn i look at or who im sending e-mail to.


if someone knowing what kind of porn i look at is the trade i have to make to make this country safer, well then in my opinion thats a small price to pay.

You know, that is exactly the kind of mindset that is going to get everyone in a lot of trouble. "Oh, I don't care, I don't commit crimes. Except I do smoke weed..."

Seriously, man, we should be able to have our privacy... whether we commit crimes (unless there's a legit warrant) or not. It's part of the original idea of America! How can you not support that? Are you a supporter of tyranny?

[silkyblue]

hey Im still a law abiding citizen
:hippy:

[Hardcore Newbie]

i really dont give a fuck. im a law abiding citizen (probably one of the few on here) and i have nothing to hide from the gov't, so what if some jerk off knows what kind of porn i look at or who im sending e-mail to.


if someone knowing what kind of porn i look at is the trade i have to make to make this country safer, well then in my opinion thats a small price to pay.

Only until they cross your line. some people are just very private and don't want the government knowing anything about them. You're ok with that. But what's your line? Phone calls from big brother every year to check up on you? Visits from big brother every month to make sure you're not lying about you wealth? Cavity searches every day to make sure you're not hiding anything?

Since you're a law abiding citizen, I guess none of this should bother you.

[psychocat]

Big Brother already exists, in the UK we have GCHQ which monitors all communications of those who are "suspect".

[jakez]

I also want to make clear that I do believe in big brother spying on certain groups of people. They definitely have the capability if they established a target. But if they wanted to start a full-on program to do it to all Americans, at this point in time, it's fiscally impossible.

I see where you're coming from now, and I agree that they (probably) aren't keeping logs of every single internet connection. But I still don't believe it's impossible, all it would take is a law to be passed (illegal one at that) that requires ISP's filter all the information first or something, even if it's a hex dump or wtf ever it is, I don't doubt for a split second that we can have that kind of technology in 2007. BTW, doesn't AT&T send every iPhone owner a stack of papers with all of their text messages listed on them every month? Sounds pretty identical to me.

[Man Beast]

We should all come together and make an island out of pop bottles and fish-net, like that one guy did on 'Ripley's Believe it or not...'. 'Course, not sure how that island would hold up to tropical weather and such without being attached to some weed-hating mainland.

Kinda sucks that governments and parliaments exists, neo-lithic men and women didn't have to worry about this kind of crap, just about other people and such stealing their goods... this is one white guy starting to see what those rastafarians are calling 'babylon'.