[CarlinsDarlin]

Yeah, it's nothing new, but it was interesting to see this on my yahoo news sign in page today - rather than on some alternative press site: link

[mindfarkk]

GWB: public enemy #1.

[watchdogmovement]

source http://www.freewebs.com/governmenttarget
(scroll to are you a government target section)

AIRLINES PROVIDED YOUR SS# & PERSONAL DATA TO THE GOVT WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT

Are you on the FBI Blacklist?
Private agencies blackball workers.
Big Business Becoming
Big Brother
By Kim Zetter
Wired News
8-9-4

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he government is increasingly using corporations to do its
surveillance work, allowing it to get around restrictions that protect the
privacy and civil liberties of Americans, according to a report released
Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that
works to protect civil liberties.

[AirlinePilot]

I have nothing to wory about. I'm a paid government disinformant or shill. They would never come after me since they pay me!

Secret agent man.

[Jack]

Well, I certainly hope I'm on the blacklist. Given the TSA's general demeanor, I think I'd rather be told that I won't be flying than have to put up with their nonsense.

I don't suppose one can self-select? Call up the FBI and get on a waiting list or something?

AirlinePilot, I don't suppose you'd be willing to do the honors, would you? (Just kidding, AirlinePilot, just kidding!)

[grabby]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AirlinePilot', 'I') have nothing to wory about. I'm a paid government disinformant or shill. They would never come after me since they pay me!

Secret agent man.

[SevenTen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('grabby', 'T')here is no intelligence in the government agencies.

[Denny]

Given most Americans concerns about privacy, it surprises me how many places seem to use SS#'s as identifiers. I went to college in the States and it was used as my student number, and where I worked it was used as an employee number.

About 25 years ago, the Canadian government ruled that our veresion, social insurance numbers, which also happen to be nine digits, could not be used for other purposes. Your employer has to invent their own number, etc.

Why should an airline have access to one's social security number? Its not relevant to their needs.

The more places that number appears, the easier it is for a culprit to perform identity theft.

[mattduke]

Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to Internet bulletin boards and Web sites nationwide. The mechanism is going in. "It's for the children." NYTimes

[cowuvula]

You won't be around to see it, so no worries.

[cowuvula]

Well, there goes looking up peak oil on any blackberries...

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cbxer55', 'W')hy is it always "For the Children"?

[smallpoxgirl]

Here's a story about it that doesn't require subscribing to the New York Times.
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_ ... source=rss

[arretium]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'V')erizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to Internet bulletin boards and Web sites nationwide. The mechanism is going in. "It's for the children."
NYTimes

[smallpoxgirl]

How in the bloody hell is it an ISP's business to monitor, much less say regulate, what websites you're allowed to visit? Your ISP is not your mother. The New York AG needs to do his freaking job and arrest the child pornographers not try and turn the ISPs into a nanny service.

[cowuvula]

They dont want to arrest the child porno visitors they would have to be arresting themselves.

They want control of the internet.

[virgincrude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cowuvula', 'T')hey dont want to arrest the child porno visitors they would have to be arresting themselves.
They want control of the internet.

[Cloud9]

Now you are getting it boys and girls. Personal freedom is too dangerous to by enjoyed by the little people. After all, we all know that the average person is an idiot. We can't have them playing with such things as the internet and firearms.

We will tell them that they are free and give them freedom of speach. They have nothing to talk about anyway. Who cares about their stupid lives and their fat children. Let them blather all they want. What we must do is keep them uninformed. If they become informed then they will want change. Change threatens our benvolent rule. Blame the tool not the fool.

If they become conscerned over the loss of these tools, tell them go along now. Get on the train. There is work and food for you at the end of the line.

[paimei01]

What do they mean by "blocking sites with child sex" ? I mean do they know the address of such sites, and put it into their program to block it ?
Why don't they just call the cops, "look we found this website, owned by...." ?

Soon we will need a permit to access the internet. No more communication, no more planning and watching what is going on in the world, we will only watch what we are shown

But let us look at the good side : more free time for other stuff.
Like spying on the neighbor to see if he says something against the government, or if he spreads fear by telling people about peak oil