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Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
CNET ^ | August 28, 2009 12:34 AM PDT | Declan McCullagh

Posted on 08/28/2009 8:13:33 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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To: PureSolace

421 posted on 08/28/2009 5:21:10 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule ,derision ,trutth. (member NRA)
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To: JRandomFreeper

bttt


422 posted on 08/28/2009 5:26:13 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Little Pig

Would it possible to create servers which are not accessible by government and off line in case of emergency?


423 posted on 08/28/2009 5:26:35 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa

in case of emergency, old Citizen Band (CB) Radio would be helpful, as well as Ham Radio (Longer distances.)


424 posted on 08/28/2009 5:33:14 PM PDT by PureSolace (Trust in God)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

btt


425 posted on 08/28/2009 5:48:22 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Jo Nuvark

City wide peer to peer Wireless 802.11b/n network with a backbone comprised of special HAM radio internet stations.

Something like this would be hard to combat, well unless they controlled the FCC..... Oh Wait....


426 posted on 08/28/2009 6:08:14 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: mojitojoe

He’s busy lately-—tidying up loose ends [i.e., propping up the science-free science czar]

Rockefeller Refers to Obama’s Science Czar [Holdren] as ‘Walking on Water’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2326789/posts

for more on Holdren’s bizarre science, see post #14 & 15


427 posted on 08/28/2009 6:11:17 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: Colonel_Flagg

LOL. Haven’t seen you in what seems like forever! It figures that the first post I’ve seen of yours for awhile would bring laughter. :-)


428 posted on 08/28/2009 6:14:11 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Looking for our Sam Adams)
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To: jongaltsr

IT HAS to get REALLY bad to wake up the morons that voted last november. I also want them to pass this.


429 posted on 08/28/2009 6:22:08 PM PDT by omega4179 ( -14)
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To: Raycpa

In theory, yes. However, the main servers the gov is likely to go after are the top-level domain controllers. Those are the servers that provide name resolution for things like the entire .com domain, and .net etc etc. Without those, the internet essentially stops functioning in the US. Include in that the “national firewall”, which is so far as I know a network of firewalls at the ingress points of the US network infrastructure, which can be shut down, and the big routers at the telecom nodes across the country, which could also be deemed important to national security, and traffic won’t go much further than your local branch office if that. Of better value to the average user would be a network of high-powered wireless routers scattered throughout the country, much like Apple “Airport” hubs on steroids, that would function in a meshed configuration, or “ad-hoc”. It could still be jammed by the gov, especially since 802.11b and g (the most popular wireless standards) use 2.4GHz radio, which is also used by ham radio, but then the gov would have less control at least. I can even foresee a guerrilla group that spends its time traveling around and deploying such routers after the lockdown, always staying one step ahead of the gov, like the rebels in “The Matrix”. Servers are easy to take over, since they have to sit in one place. Wireless routers can move around.


430 posted on 08/28/2009 6:30:22 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: penelopesire

“At this point, Obama’s lawlessness and criminal Abuse Of Power is IN YOUR FACE!!”

Very! Been thinking same thing...Hubris with a sneer.


431 posted on 08/28/2009 6:37:06 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: thouworm
Hubris with a sneer!
432 posted on 08/28/2009 6:48:36 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I think Tropical Storm Danny is sufficient cause to INVOKE this FEDERAL law. Don't you think?

Oh wait.........the storm is petering out..............OK............I gotta ANOTHER thing here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..

OK..........................

Let me Goooooooo........OKKKKKKKKK

Here it goes...............................

OK!

The FACT that you all DON'T have HEALTH INSURANCE tells ME that I HAVEE TO take over your lives. OK?

433 posted on 08/28/2009 7:09:06 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Where are all the civil liberties groups and the ACLU at now? “

They are silent probably because porn sites will still be accessible from libraries during the “emergency”.

They know what the emergency will be- a strong conservative presidential campaign with a big Web presence. Or serious organizing, or anything that will unite us.


434 posted on 08/28/2009 7:17:30 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: SkyPilot

Not to hijack the thread, but listening to Limbaugh today...he mentioned Hurricane Danny. With the Kennedy funeral extravaganza in Boston, the alphabets were still sending weatherpeople/newsies telling New Englanders how to prepare to survive...a thunderstorm.

You know, SP...all that dampness (sniffles) can lead to (PaMom looks both ways) a cold WHICH COULD BE MISDIAGNOSED as ‘you know what...’


435 posted on 08/28/2009 7:28:17 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (They that can give up liberty 2 purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; All

Off topic, but not by much....

If you missed Glenn Beck this week, this is scary stuff.

If you haven’t seen this,you might want to see it first.(Apollo Alliance)

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Scroll down to Monday,24th (left side) and start watching.

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(I’m sure today’s show will post more soon!)

PLEASE share this with everyone

E-mail,blog, what ever!

God Bless America!

Jeff


436 posted on 08/28/2009 8:35:41 PM PDT by Jeffrey_D. (veritas odium parit)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

On a serious note. It is easy to react to such legislation understandably with concern. But such news is very easy to steer up images of zero somehow controlling the whole entity, which is silly. The Internet is a vast conglomerate of huge networks which in turn are controlled by huge local/intra-Internet and other type network entities. One just does not send out some kind of code or stream of data over the whole world’s interlaced networks and take control of them. That is Hollywood stuff.


437 posted on 08/28/2009 9:13:13 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle
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To: Vaquero

The worst part is that the liberals managed to get a law passed that forces the citizens of the US to pay for for the ACLU.


438 posted on 08/28/2009 9:23:26 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Senator Edward Kennedy 1932-2009, May he rot in hell.)
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To: freebird5850
But I like this one better:

439 posted on 08/28/2009 9:29:09 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This is how ostammer takes command and control away from any revolutionary effort or “community organizing” by those who don’t agree with his draconian Marxist policies.


440 posted on 08/28/2009 9:37:44 PM PDT by bustinchops (Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
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