Democrats' Next Target: the Internet

The American Thinker Blog ^ | April 06, 2009 | Larrey Anderson

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ll make my own. Heck, if Algore can invent it, I sure could re-invent it. :)

[Paine in the Neck]

Funny. Wasn’t Jay Ropckefeller one of the ones bleating the loudest about “domestic surveilance not too long ago? I wonder what’s changed.

[BlueStateBlues]

Horrible, and facist. Did you see the newest about Tony Blair wanting to be the President of the EU? He’ll have internet control over there too, and we all will be subject to the eye of Big Brother.

[YankeeReb]

Why was it a problem when GWB wanted to monitor calls by non-citizens to outside calls to countries known to support terrorists, but nary a peep about this? Just curious.

[Uncle Miltie]

[libh8er]

Wow. The Left were crying bloody murder over the (not)evesdropping. Expect silence on this one.

[y6162]

The first step in a coup would be taking control of the organs of mass communication.

[bamahead]

The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would, for example, give the President unfettered power to shut down Internet traffic in emergencies ... on national security grounds.
The bill would grant the Commerce Department the ability to override all privacy laws to access any information about Internet usage in connection with a new role in tracking cybersecurity threats.



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[YOUGOTIT]

Goodbye to freedom of speech.

[The Great RJ]

I expect Congress will to try to enact legislation to censor the Internet similar to that being done in Australia and China. In order to prevent Internet access to child porn, the Australian government censors access to a list of “offensive” sites. It would take a click of a mouse by some government bureaucrat to block access to sites deemed politically offensive.

[autumnraine]

That’s because their boyfriend wouldn’t ever do anything nefarious with this ‘power’! /s

[Gator113]

The democrats have made it clear that they are all powerful and that they are going to do any damn thing that they want. period.

Frankly, I am not so sure that hey are not taking steps to confound the potential rebellion that they must know is building.

Removing or controlling the ability of your enemy to communicate, is an effective military tactic.

They want absolute control and power over the American people in place, before we resist....

We may not like it, but it might be good planning on their part.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

I know... they could call it the Patriot Act.

[ken21]

a lot of things would not be accessible, for one—cell phones.

the band width would go to the military and police.

[mgstarr]

But see that was different. W had an (R) after his name.

[Vaduz]

How long will it take Nancy and obama severely regulate traffic on the Internet 30 days or 60 days?

[coydog]

Time to work out alternate methods of communication. CB radio and long-range bluetooth, guys.

[Centurion2000]

Bump

[Corin Stormhands]

Time to work out alternate methods of communication. CB radio and long-range bluetooth, guys.

I keep thinking that, as bad as the books were, maybe the Left Behind guys knew some of what they were talking about...