Senate Wants Presidential Control of the Internet

Dahota Voice ^ | 8/28/9 | Bob Ellis

[Clint Williams]

The power-grabs from this Constitutionally-belligerent liberal government just keep rolling.

Taking over huge sections of the banking industry wasn’t enough.

Taking over the auto industry wasn’t enough.

Taking over the energy industry wasn’t enough.

Taking over the health care industry still wasn’t enough.

Now they want to take control of the entire internet.

[Clint Williams]

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[the invisib1e hand]

The government has actually always controlled the transmission frequencies. And that control could always be abused by a power junkie.

So, in what ways is does this differ?

Disclaimer: I think it's a very bad omen, but I'm trying to take a rational approach to it.

[rightwingextremist1776]

The second amendment....there to back up the first......

[EGPWS]

Senate Wants Presidential Control of the Internet

A struggle between the government branches?Perhaps just a wanton political directive of like minds.

[doc1019]

During WWII, the underground in Europe kept the populace aware of the truth. The Internet is the modern equivalent of the European underground.

If we lose the Internet, we lose access to the truth.

[thecodont]

Senate Wants Presidential Control of the Internet

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet | Politics and Law - CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

READ the comments. There are many.

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1351243

The gearheads and geeks sound pretty p*ssed.

[Gene Eric]

>> The government has actually always controlled the transmission frequencies.

The Internet is not the same type of limited resource.

Telecom would offer a better analogy if one’s to be made.

[EGPWS]

If we lose the Internet, we lose access to the truth.

The loss of either is a "slam dunk" loss of freedom.

[uncommonsense]

The next buying spree after ammo will be HAM radios. Morse code will be back in vogue. Low frequency, high power.

[doc1019]

AMEN!

[Dick Bachert]

Obama has selected the “czar” of his new Emergency Internet Management Agency. The acronym for the new agency is ENIMA. The person chosen is a Dr. Goebbels (photo below) who described the mission statement of the organization: “To purge any crap about der furh -- er – President Obama out of the internet by any and all necessary means.” Herr Doctor reminded the interviewer that failure to comply with the rules and regulations to be administered by ENIMA will be dealt with “most harshly because ve know ver you live.”

[raptor29]

With all that you are currently witnessing with this Administration, your knee jerk reaction is to cut them slack, and ‘take a rational approach to it’?

Any chances you were an O.J. juror?

[Nephi]

It should be noted that our beloved traitor, Olympia Snowe co-sponsored this BS.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

“Bill would give president emergency control of Internet “

Bill Clinton?

to Hillary ???

[the invisib1e hand]

your knee jerk reaction is to cut them slack, and ‘take a rational approach to it’?

I think the words I actually use are adequate, without having them augmented from your fertile imagination.

Any chances you were an O.J. juror?

No room for "the rational approach" in your world, I take it.

[the invisib1e hand]

Guessing, and that from memory, but the www cannot be "taken over" -- by design, in fact, as the routing of signals is, ad hoc, perfectly redundant between servers.

Certainly the Obama Administration can find a way to "take over," in one form or another, the gateways to the web -- American ISP's -- and by "legal" means demand access to the information held on their servers. And of course it may find like-minded totalitarians willing to be its accomplice here and there throughout the world, but I rather think there are domiciles that will not get on board.

So then the issue will be obtaining access to reasonable ISP's.