The White House Wants to Issue You an Online ID - driver's license for the internet

[JDPriestly]

68. What a stupid, expensive idea.

The reason that we have drivers' licenses is to improve and insure safety on our streets. We don't have them in order to know what people are doing in their everyday lives. As long as there are no accidents and people obey the laws, no one cares who is driving where or in what car or whether they have a license. In fact, bicycle riders and skate boarders don't have to have licenses to ride on our streets in California.

The drivers' license makes it possible to identify the driver of a car if the police have to intervene for some reason. The test to get a license helps insure that people who drive cars know the rules.

The internet does not pose the dangers that a car on the highway does. There is no safety reason fro having internet licenses issued to individuals as a requirement for using the internet. Besides kids use the internet, often an internet service owned by their parents or someone else. How would you license that? Would parents be responsible for the internet use of their children? That does not seem practical or fair?

When Russia decides to regiment and police the internet in Russia, we are all horrified and point out that the regimentaion and policing of the internet is a sign of a totalitarian state, a dictatorship.

We pose no danger to anyone when we use the internet. If someone is breaking a law while using the internet, the police and FBI have simple means for determining who is breaking it.

We don't need this licensing system. It will cost a lot of money and make internet use more expensive and difficult.

There are cheaper, easier ways to insure the safety of the internet such as if the NSA would focus on finding out who spreads computer viruses instead of facilitating the spread of computer viruses and instead of just ignoring the problem of computer viruses.

Our government has more important things to do than registering our internet use.

They don't have enough money to maintain our highways without charging us tolls for using them, but they want to start a new department to register our internet use and license us for the internet. We've been doing just fine without this "service." No. No. No.

If the US governemtn has money to waste on this, I vote it fixes the highways instead.