Jay Rockefeller: Internet should have never existed [censorship alert]

YouTube ^ | 3/20/09 | Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)

[NewJerseyJoe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9xzXUQLuY

[NewJerseyJoe]

> Not really what he said.

I have learned -- as have most FReepers, over a number of painful years -- to discern what Democrats really mean when they speak. I have no doubt as to what was in this clown's thoughts.

[massgopguy]

Actually ARPANET was strated as a means to have Redundant Units that would survive EMP’s. When I worked at Digital Equipment Company in 1981 a “Tempest” Monitor came into our OEM by mistake. It had about 50 pounds of shielding under the plastic housing. Some “people” came and took it from us.

[The Duke]

Good luck getting *that* genie back in the proverbial bottle!

[Niteranger68]

It’s a shame the good people of WV have two of the worst senators.

[martin_fierro]

lolz

[Charlespg]

Wasn't he the idiot who made the statement”Americans don't know whats good for them” during the bubba years?

[Unicorn]

What a waste of skin and air.

[cynwoody]

I can’t youtoob at the office but I’d wager that the mindset isn’t that the internet is “evil”, it is just that the “public” should never have been granted access or permitted to know it existed (which it had for DECADES).

He was actually just windbagging, letting us see how stupid he is and hammering down C-Span ratings. He was trying to make an exaggerated case for cyber security improvements by scaremongering about threats to the national defense and infrastructure as a result of hacking.

He cited millions of attacks a day against the Pentagon, for example. Hell, I personally get hundreds of attacks per day. The only reason I even know about them is that I have a syslog daemon set up to record the log messages my router puts out.

[Disambiguator]

Some “people” came and took it from us.

"That wasn't a shielded monitor, it was a mis-delivered box full of sanitary napkins."