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Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers
Renegade:
Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers
President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the floor...
...While media and public attention is overwhelmingly focused on the BP oil spill, the establishment is quietly preparing the framework that will allow Obama, or indeed any President who follows him, to bring down a technological iron curtain that will give the government a foot in the door on seizing complete control over the Internet...
...Indeed, China uses similar rhetoric about the need to maintain “security” and combating cyber warfare by regulating the web, when in reality their entire program is focused around silencing anyone who criticizes the state.
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Ahem... Do the words
NSFWFuck off and leave us alone
have any meaning?
Sneaky, and dangerous.
Why is every year 1984 lately?
mrainey:
Why is every year 1984 lately?
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Why does every political event or medical event, or even current event, spawn a dozen different conspiracy theories?
(I didn't write the following - it was at the end of the "kill switch" story.)
CANCER CONSPIRACY? Are "they" suppressing the cure? Will YOU be the next victim? Learn the Secret Truth! - READ FULL STORY
Deozaan:
Four months? Why so long?
I've got a bad feeling about this. :(
Renegade:
Why is every year 1984 lately?
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Why does every political event or medical event, or even current event, spawn a dozen different conspiracy theories?
(I didn't write the following - it was at the end of the "kill switch" story.)
CANCER CONSPIRACY? Are "they" suppressing the cure? Will YOU be the next victim? Learn the Secret Truth! - READ FULL STORY
-mrainey (June 27, 2010, 03:35 PM)
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It's extreme. It's cutting off the top form of communication. Why would you need to do this? There is no reason at all for it. Given the state of technology today for traffic shaping and filtering, there just isn't a reason. Well... Not a legitimate reason.
These are the kinds of things that governments do to suppress their civilian populations. It has happened before. It is happening today. And with this, it may very well happen in the "home of the free and the land of the brave".
It's not a conspiracy when it's right out in the open for everyone to see.
I used the 1984 metaphor because there are far too many things like this happening. Increased legislation that restricts basic freedoms, like the freedom to communicate, is becoming more and more common. It's a slippery slope, and we're teetering at the edge of a very steep slope.
In Australia they have Internet censoring legislation. It's not too dissimilar to what China has. Is this a good thing? Do you want to be fed "approved" information? I don't.
There are some very sick people out there, like the nut cases at Stormfront, and while I vehemently disagree with them, I most certainly support their right to have their own beliefs and put up sites/garbage about those beliefs.
What other metaphor fits for when the state blocks communications for its population?
We have organizations that monitor these kinds of things to one degree or another -- an EFF article (just the end part to see how they describe this kind of behavior):
EFF will continue to monitor these events. For some ideas on ways to speak freely without falling victim to authoritarian surveillance and censorship, and ways for the rest of us to help support the worldwide community, check out EFF's Surveillance Self Defense International.
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I may be paranoid about some things. I don't think I'm stretching with the metaphor in this case. It's pretty obvious that it's just very far beyond reasonable.
mrainey:
Our government has always been skeptical about freedom and civil liberties, especially in time of war. Only the technology has changed.
Read the whole page.
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/timeline.html
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