[WEB4LIB] RE: HR 1846 (was Re: Blocking email, the complaint)

[Daniel Messer]

Does it bother anyone else that the United States government is starting to seem less and less "for the people" and more and more "for the corporations"? I really have my doubts to the sanity of my government anymore. It's become glaringly obvious over the last year or so that the government is going on a strict anti-individualistic streak.

Dan


Larry Scritchfield wrote:

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> The target of the bill seems to me to be NOT "pseudonymous" e-mail
> services like mail.yahoo.com, hotmail.com etc. but true anonymizing
> services like www.anonymizer.com, www.safeweb.com etc.
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> Quoting the bill --
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> `(A) ANONYMOUSLY- The term `anonymously' means--
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>      `(i) with respect to sending of electronic mail, in a manner that prevents--
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>           `(I) anyone receiving such mail from accessing the electronic mail address of the sender; or
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>            `(II) the creation or recording, by the computer used for sending the electronic mail, of a record that the mail was sent, of the content of the mail, of the address to which the mail was sent, or of the time, date, or sender of the mail; and
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>        `(ii) with respect to accessing the World Wide Web, in a manner that prevents the creation or recording, by the computer used for such access or by the network of which such computer is a part, of any record of the World Wide Web sites accessed by such computer or the identity of the user who, or account that, accessed such web sites.'.

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