But Wait! There’s More with the NTIA
Congress adopted the Broadband Data Improvement Act in 2008 to compile of map of the nation showing which areas have broadband and which do not. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is getting the information, but the Obama Administration has decided to use the NTIA to get more than the law requires.

Beyond the general data on which parts of the nation have high speed internet access and is it cable or DSL, Obama wants to know down to the individual what the individual has and how much the individual pays. Specifically, the NTIA is now requiring internet provides to give the government “average revenue per end user and data regarding type, technical specification or location of broadband infrastructure,” i.e. your home address, IP address, how much you pay, and where the connection is at your house.

The law does not require it. Congress does not want it. The NTIA admits the information will not be used

to compile the map of national broadband, but Barack Obama still wants it.

We have a White House asking neighbors to turn in neighbors by forwarding emails — some of which will contain IP address information. And we have the White House demanding internet providers provide them with the home addresses corresponding to those IP addresses. Lastly, we have a White House that has thus far been extremely opaque despite pledges of transparency and a White House that has not hesitated to use private citizens information when it benefits them.

Be worried.

I daresay that it was spineless, gutless republicans like Cornyn who put that unamerican, incompetant clown in office. They, the republicans, better grow some and step up to the bat before we're asked to spy on our own families. Think that's impossible? Think again. Hussein Obama has sold us down the river. When someone is that power hungry, the sky's the limit; to hell with the consequences. Where are the likes of Ronald Reagan? Someone better step up and defend America because it's being sold off to the highest bidder. If we don't start to reign in our elected "officials" and make them accountable, we're sunk and we will have only ourselves to blame for turning a blind eye. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

Boone you are correct the Republicans are not the party we thought they were. I am not sure that I have completely given up on them but I am very close. I am no longer convinced that voting Libertarian is throwing away my vote! http://changeitback.blogspot.com

The "gutless" ones are those without the nerve to take a side. I'll support whoever opposes what Obama is up to.