Comments on: House panel OKs global rules for U.S. Net firms

Bill is reponse to reports that tech companies have been tailoring offerings to China's censorship regime.

[WarthogSA]

Is the NSA listening

While I heartily endorse the freedom of the Internet I suspect the Bill will be quietly dropped as it would likely provide the basis for a legal challenge of various US Government initatives for monitoring individual use of the Internet that appear to near and dear to the current administration.

[The user with no name]

no it wouldn't

because the US is NOT going to put ITSELF on the State Department's list of 'violating countries'.

Of course it could lead to these companies leaving American soil and becoming rooted in a country that does not care how they interact with certain regimes and whatever violations they may help them commit.

I think that it is a heinous act that Yahoo has participated in and have stopped using all things Yahoo. However I am uncertain of the worth of this bill except as a feat of grandstanding.

[Ipod Apple]

I heartily endorse the freedom

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[andrewm57]

Hypocrisy!

This bill would ban US companies from keeping personal information on servers in other countries, yet the DOJ & FBI want ISP's to retain customer data here in the US, and the NSA wants to snoop on all of it?