I am Spartacus.Ha-ha, just kidding. I'm really Bill Clinton.
Posted on 09/13/2008 7:02:09 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper
A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.
The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the "IP Traceback" drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback proposal. Members of Q6/17 have declined to release key documents, and meetings are closed to the public.
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LOL.
It will take hackers about 10 minutes to figure out how to spoof the system once it is implemented.
Oh, the Chinese are involved? Then, I’m sure GOOGLE is right in there trying to help them. Right?
Free speech is very dangerous to the state. Which is why most of our politicians are against it.
Including the GOP candidate for president.
The UN needs to be abolished.
Free speech is very dangerous to the state. Which is why most of our politicians are against it.
Including the GOP candidate for president.
We heard you the first time.
You don’t like McCain? You can always vote for Obama-lama-ding-dong.
I am Spartacus.Ha-ha, just kidding. I'm really Bill Clinton.
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The UN wants to control the Internet By Tom DeWeese Throughout the history of mankind, any time the spark of liberty has been ignited, one force or another has rushed to extinguish it. Today, in a world already suffocating under the weight of rules and regulations designed to control, tax and consume every outlet of human expression, the Internet stands as the only unregulated source of liberty in the world. True to form, the United Nations is holding yet another international gathering to plot the takeover of the Internet. Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, government diplomats and non-governmental organizations (NGO's) have gathered at the World Information Summit to discuss the "role of the media," in order to set "acceptable boundaries to freedom of expression." Acceptable to whom? Nations like Brazil, India, China, and Saudi Arabia are among those pushing to have the UN take over control of the Internet. They argue that the Internet is a public resource that should be managed by national governments and, at an international level, by an intergovernmental body such as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the UN agency responsible for organizing the information summit. Their excuses for United Nations control of the Internet are typically designed to appeal to a wide variety of users. Government control, they argue, would prevent unwanted advertising called "spam;" stop the spread of computer viruses; protect privacy and beef up security of computer data banks; stop hate speech found in various web sites and (to appeal to Christians) to stop child pornography. It all sounds so perfect, so benevolent, so well organized. |
I don’t see what the problem is - you’ll still have privacy they’ll just tell everyone who you are.
Well hey, in a world where banning things reinforces free speech it makes sense...
-liberal logic
Retribution is a key tool the left uses to gain and keep power. Anonymity, which enables true freedom of speech, thwarts it. The left needs the ability to threaten and destroy people to succeed. There is a long string of people that got fired from their jobs during this Democrat campaign. I can’t think of any on the Republican side.
Yeah, upholding free speech rights will certainly be high on Obama’s list of Marxist “reforms”.
No, but we had better be realistic about who McCain is.
And my dang internet connection did it to me again !
I eagerly await the day that the UN actually tries to activate a scheme like this. Watching the UN get crushed by a bunch of pimply-faced teenage boys operating (anonymously!) out of their parents’ basement will make my heart go pitter-patter.
“Oh, the Chinese are involved? Then, I’m sure GOOGLE is right in there trying to help them. Right?”
Google is a huge hive of relativistic, we-know-better-than-you libs, they make Microsoft look like a straight shooter by comparison! I used to live where a lot of google recruiting happened - those people think they invented the Internet and that their 70-hr-a-week, live-at-the-office business operation is smarter than everyone else.
This is classic:
“Members of Q6/17 have declined to release key documents, and meetings are closed to the public.”
This global group of elitists that want to end ‘anonymity’ on the net operates in secrecy.
I wonder if the irony is lost on them and those who think that this is a good idea.
Would that that were true. Unfortunately, by supporting this invasion of privacy, it not only makes people more afraid to speak freely because the thought police will be unleashed on those who practice . . . . say, "hate speech" (which, in the liberal lexicon, includes conservatives posting on FReepublic.com!)
gilbo_3 to un...BITE ME...
IMHO, the best response is, “I wonder what Publius would think?”
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