Posted on 11/19/2016 8:50:04 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
The following article was published on the Breitbart website on November 17 of this year:
Merkel With Obama: Internet ‘Disruptive’ Force that Has to Be ‘Contained, Managed, and Steered’ by Government
By Oliver JJ Lane
Speaking at a joint press conference with outgoing American President Barack Obama on his farewell tour, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made chilling remarks about her views on the need for government to control the internet and slammed anti-Islamisation protesters who she accused of hijacking the German spirit for liberty.
German Chancellor Merkel, who is presently deciding whether to run for a historic fourth term on the strength of her pro-migrant policies which have seen her lauded with praise by President Obama, moved to address populism in her joint address.
Calling the surge of interest in right-wing politics a “wave” that “engulfs us,” Ms. Merkel noted the sentiment “seems to come from the United States,” but in an oblique reference to President-Elect Donald Trump said it was an issue she was dealing with in Europe, too. She said:
“Look at the European parliament. There are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions and are preaching simplistic solutions which are very unfriendly policies. We have them here in Europe, too, we have them in Germany too.”
Apparently blaming this rising populism — politics that are popular with voters — on the internet, the German chancellor implied the internet would have to be subject to restrictive censorship laws as were enacted by many European nations to stem the disruptive effect of the printing press. She said:
“Digitisation is a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change and transformation...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecoachsteam.com ...
Can’t have the plebes thinking for themselves. They might not think the right things.
That would be counter to our First Amendment.
And there we have it.
Two smug losers if I ever saw any. What pathetic fascist bums.
They think that the First Amendment is “unconstitutional”. It’s the commie way.
German Fuehrer Adolph Merkel Has Spoken! So Shall It Be!
Sounds like something Hitler (or Stalin) would do?
It’s Merkel and obamass love child.
Any attempt to stifle domestic debate by someone outside the US should be considered an act of war, and dealt with in an appropriate manner.
“Very often, it led to enormous transformational processes within individual societies and it took a while until societies learned to find the right kinds of policies to contain this, to manage and steer this. We live in a period of profound transformation.” - Merkel
Merkel's is a shallow "progressive" analysis of what America's Founders rightly viewed as enhancements to a free exchange of ideas.
Who do these individuals like Merkel and Obama think they are to imagine, limited by their extremely limited study and understanding of the history of nations, that they or any of their ilk should "contain," or "manage" the technological wonders which enhance and enlarge the abilities of fellow human beings to communicate their ideas, or their God-given rights to "freedom of conscience" and "freedom of expression"--by whatever means available?
The following pretty much confirms their globalization goals as well
Full title: Merkel With Obama: Internet ‘Disruptive’ Force That Has To Be ‘Contained, Managed and Steered’ by Government
German Chancellor Angela Merkel made chilling remarks about her views on the need for government to control the internet and slammed anti-Islamisation protesters who she accused of hijacking the German spirit for liberty
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3495984/posts
And
Obama Merkel – Internet Censorship Will Control Middle Class Rebellion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3496168/posts
They don’t seem to understand something.
The Internet was designed to route data traffic around outages (like a city being nuked).
Censorship gets treated like an outage.
There are some conventions we use to keep things simple & smooth, like a centralized DNS server (the core of what Obama just gave away; network equivalent of the White Pages).
Should censorship attempt to silence access to websites, users just switch from using centralized DNS servers and straightforward routing to the already-well-solved methods of private DNS, VPNs, encryption, alternate inter-network connections/backbones, and other techniques to re-route data and identify destinations.
Think “darknet”. Huge user base, highly active, major underground economy, no way to shut it down, invisible to “public”.
To the witch Merkel: F U B*tch. Keep your ugly mug out my First Amendment rights.
Scratch a kraut...find a Nazi underneath.
Watch out, Frau Merkel. Or your country’s conservatives might drop a house on you too.
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