US government report recommends blocking popular websites during pandemic flu outbreak

Natural News ^ | 10-29-09 | Mike Adams

[mlizzy]

(NaturalNews) The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth for investors, day traders and securities clearing house operations. The concern is that a pandemic would cause too many people to stay at home and download YouTube videos and porn, hogging all the internet bandwidth and blocking throughput for investment activities, thereby causing a stock market meltdown.

This isn't an April Fool's joke. It's all based on a public report issued by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), available from their website at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d108.pdf

In this article, I'm going to explain how a pandemic outbreak could theoretically bring down Wall Street. But to get to that, you'll first need to find out what the GAO said in its curious report (see below). Parts of this article are presented as satire, but the underlying facts quoted here are all true and verifiable (links are provided to all sources).

This report in question is entitled, "GAO Report to Congressional Requesters, INFLUENZA PANDEMIC" and includes this subtitle: Key Securities Market Participants Are Making Progress, but Agencies Could Do More to Address Potential Internet Congestion and Encourage Readiness.

[mlizzy]

As the report explains ... In a severe pandemic, governments may close schools, shut down public transportation systems, and ban public gatherings such as concerts or sporting events. In such scenarios, many more people than usual may be at home during the day, and Internet use in residential neighborhoods could increase significantly as a result of people seeking news, entertainment, or social contact from home computers. Concerns have been raised that this additional traffic could lead to congestion on the Internet that would significantly affect businesses in local neighborhoods, such as small doctors' offices or business employees attempting to telework by connecting to their employers' enterprise networks.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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[HiTech RedNeck]

What idiots calculated that everyone will be youtubing rather than sick in bed?

This is only an excuse for the gummit to get its sticky fingers on the likes of Fox and FR.

[Soothesayer9]

Why are these morons still around when all they seem to do is create heaps of paperwork and fail?

/picardfacepalm

[OneWingedShark]

Never allow a crisis to go to waste, eh?

[blackbart.223]

"Why are these morons still around when all they seem to do is create heaps of paperwork and fail?"

Because a large block of morons vote for them. Who is the moron is the question you should ask.

[swheats]

bump for later

[Freddd]

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta tonight said, the Swine flu is LESS virulent than the seasonal flu!!!

And the prime season was earlier this year!

This whole thing has been a deception, hyped again by the media, and a failure and another theft from the American people.

[MamaDearest]

a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth

If they do this, its likely to have an ADVERSE effect on the stock market and cause real panic and civil chaos and distract us from the financial quicksand we're currently mired in.

It is becoming more and more apparent they want 100% CONTROL of the internet, by hook or by crook.

[DannyTN]

I can see the concern.

But if they do something like this. It should require:

• the approval of a judge, just like a warrant.
• a limited timeframe.
• be limited to only the peak hours. And in no case non-working wall-street hours.
• have a specific list of sites identified for the judge to approve and the category of site, (porn, gambling, youtube, online games, etc.
• news organizations such as Fox must not be blocked.
• a quick appeal process for any site that is "miscategorized" or critical to any business process.
• and government should reimburse non-porn and non-gambling sites for lost revenue. based on normal non-pandemic volume.

[goodnesswins]

CNN let that doc say that!? WOW. Not only that, but they are not even really testing for Swine flu....they do NOT know what kind of flu people have!

[SwedeBoy2]

So Now it is Bandwidth Rationing for the Good of the Bankers?

Has anyone thought that maybe there are a lot of Businesses that are not Brick and Mortar that depend upon online sales.

So, You’ve read “Unintended Consequences” and “Enemies Foreign and Domestic”?

[SwedeBoy2]

Beware of Mission Creep!

[airborne]

Helping businesses isn’t part of the master plan.

[GloriaJane]

Shut down popular sites like twitter? The site the Iranian people used when they were standing up to Ahmadinejad?

[Freedom2specul8]

Fyi!

[goodnesswins]

YEP...if they are talking about PORN sites...go ahead....sheesh....anything else...give me a break!

[Freedom2specul8]

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[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth ....”

Doesn't this amount to the exact opposite of what the “Net Neutrality” legislation would be intended to do?