How do you like “progressive” governance now, America?
And remember, when W wanted to monitor the phone calls of known terrorists, he was a “fascist tyrant.”
I have it on the best of authority on another FR thread that McCain would have been just as bad.
I notice that when something is bad, the press inserts the generic “government” or “president” words in place of Obama.
Folks this is just the beginning. They want to take our freedoms away as we know them. All this in the first 3 months. It is going to be a long 45 months.
The Critters (Rockefeller, Olympia Snowe, Bill Nelson (who I do not know) :
The bill would allow the government to create a detailed set of standards for cybersecurity, as well as take over the process of certifying IT technicians. But many in the technology sector say the government is simply ill-equipped to get involved at the technical level, said Franck Journoud, a policy analyst with the Business Software Alliance.
“Simply put, who has the expertise?” he said. “It’s the industry, not the government. We have a responsibility to increase and improve security. That responsibility cannot be captured in a government standard.”
A spokeswoman from Rockefeller’s office said neither he nor the two senators who co-sponsored the bill, Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Bill Nelson, D-Fla., will answer questions on cybersecurity at a later date.
This may be the one issue that will cause the naive young crowd who voted for Obama en masse to get angry and upset about - they can't get on My Space or Twitter. And if this cybersecurity shutdown extends to cell phones and they can't text each other all day and all night, then we'll see some irate youngsters!