US: The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good

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    9 August 2011

    An overzealous bill that claims to be about stopping child pornography turns every Web user into a person to monitor: Every right-thinking person abhors child pornography. To combat it, legislators have brought through committee a poorly conceived, over-broad Congressional bill, The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. It is arguably the biggest threat to civil liberties now under consideration in the United States. The potential victims: everyone who uses the Internet.