Internet Kill Switch America: Are We Next?

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[Michael van der Galien]

Watching the scenes out of Egypt unfold on my iPhone, I feel the need to update my Facebook profile to let my friends know how upset I am about the situation. Opening the emails that keep me up to date on the protests and the twitter feeds from around the world, it dawns on me just how dependent we all are on the internet for information.

Of all the lessons to be learned from the current situation in Egypt perhaps the starkest is “There but for the grace of congress go I”. Egypt’s not so secret kill switch to effectively turn off the internet has many advocates here at home. A bill to implement similar regulations in the US is on the table before Congress. While the debate rages on both sides of the political spectrum about Egypt’s policies, bloggers everywhere are taking sides on how these protests relate to the US, and our constant fight for freedom of speech.

Chris Hedges from truthdig.com warns readers not to get caught up in this debate:

Don’t be fooled by the glib sloganeering about democracy or the facile reporting by Western reporters—few of whom speak Arabic or have experience in the region. Egyptians are not Americans. They have their own culture, their own sets of grievances and their own history. And it is not ours.

Well, yes of course their culture is different. But if freedom of speech and the ability to communicate is not a fundamental right, a fundamental desire, for all people, then what is Mr. Hedges?

[Lucky9teen]

Internet Kill Switch

Such vitriol....

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

As long as there are two wires and two computers, there will be internet or a form of it.

[sodpoodle]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41320309/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

Good article.

[TaraP]

How ironic in the Movie *Left Behind-Tribulation Force made in 2002 an order is given by by *Nicolai Carpathia! to KILL IT! The Internet and Cable..

Here is the Clip..

If you go to the 7 Minute frame of the Clip, it is quite amazing of WHO has the power to *Cut it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOdmjUlGYOg

[thouworm]

Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down

Committee Passes Plan for Internet ‘Kill Switch’ in Egypt..no.. in U.S.

Internet Kill Switch(controlled by Obama, exempt from judicial review) Act On Senate's Agenda

U.S. takes note as Mubarak demonstrates the Internet 'kill switch'

Egyptians Try Get Through Despite the Blackout

Egypt Cuts Off The Net. Net Fights Back

Egypt may have turned off the Internet one phone call at a time

[TigersEye]

Go ahead and kill the internet, 0bozo. Wake up all the couch potatoes and make them mad as hornets. Cut off all business transactions and see how that goes over.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Thanks for the ping and the clip, Tara!

Things have been happening prophetically so fast in the last few days it is head-spinning.

I firmly believe that Barack Obama is involved in this Egypt disaster up to his ears and I also believe that he is attempting to, if he hasn't already, set up the mechanism to allow for the internet to be shut down at will.

There has been a big step-up in much stage-setting in the last week!

[Quix]

THX THX.

[blueplum]

as I've said before, Zero painted himself into a corner with his admonishment to Egypt to turn on the internet. Republicans should push this to our advantage demonstrating Zero's unending hypocrisy, and submit a bill to kill the kill switch. Zero can ‘win the future’ some other way.

[3niner]

I once read a science fiction story where a key plot element was built around a world-wide network which could not be shut down. It made extensive use of wireless point to point connections, and routing was handled by billions of nodes working on a peer to peer basis.

In the story, a major military effort was required to locate, isolate, and shut down one user.

The technology to do this already exists, and smaller networks of this type almost certainly exist. The government can force this to occur on a large scale, by trying to grab too much control.

[Viking2002]

I think it's about time to throw together a couple of old boxes with 44k baud modems and Telnet on them. Sounds like we may have to go retro and set up a couple of BBS networks. Unplug that.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[TaraP]

Amen Giovanna!

it is now daily we see Bible Prophecy being fulfilled in these perilous times!

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Amen brother - they still around

[RedStateRocker]

Don’t forget: it’s *Republican* Susan Collins and Independent Liberman who introduced this thing and

“....Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
“We’re not trying to mandate any requirements for the entire Internet, the entire Internet backbone,” said Brandon Milhorn, Republican staff director and counsel for the committee.

Instead, Milhorn said at a conference in Washington, D.C., the point of the proposal is to assert governmental control only over those “crucial components that form our nation’s critical infrastructure.”

RINO’s are more dangerous than our President