Posted on 01/11/2012 2:58:09 PM PST by Lucky9teen
Edited on 01/11/2012 8:32:07 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
President Obama is putting plans in motion to give the Commerce Department authority to create an Internet ID for all Americans, a White House official told CNET.com.
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt told the website it is "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
...so they want to watch our every activity on the web but not who votes in our elections?
I downloaded and read the original proposals. If one does not have a government-issued identity, one will not be allowed on the internet. The ID will be inprinted in a USB drive which must be inserted into the computer to allow it to get past government servers, which will track all traffic.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Good one!
Ok, who is going to host the FR BBS at their house when this passes? I’ll chip in my old 9600 baud modem.
“So what they are saying is you won’t be able to buy or sell without it.”
I guess Obama heard that online sales were still growing, so he had to find a way to squash that.
Actually, his job might be easier, because he can keep writing more and more outlandish stories without worrying whether they are believable enough!
The impetus for the policy move by the Obama Administration is part of the Cyberspace Policy Review published in June 2009. The NSTIC proposal was released in draft form in June 2010 along with a website set up by the Department of Homeland Security to elicit feedback and ideas from people.[3] On April 15, 2011, the final draft of NSTIC was released by the White House. In this version of the draft the role of the federal government was toned down and highlighted its role as merely a facilitator in establishing the ecosystem. The effort has to be led by the private-sector.[4]
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Wonder if Big Bro and the US Congress will decree that our Internet ID numbers be tattooed on our wrists??? From birth on???
Is there a way to make a separate Intranet on the internet? One that is government-free?
Either that or on the forehead.
D’ya think someone is working on that in their garage? ... I ask hopefully.
And how many times these fake IDs will be voting in the election.
Dibs on 5.56- 7.62- 9mm-44mag-.50BMG !
Thanks for that link. I had not seen that. It’s a well-done presentation and so true.
I’ve got a small group of middle-schoolers who are going to be working on analytical skills. I want them to understand the whole idea of a philosophical argument and how you test the soundness of a philosophical argument. We’re also going to be working on understanding how the German people were able to accept the Holocaust. Because it’s a public school setting I’d have to leave out the part about salvation (a shame that the part that can help them most of all is off-limits for me to give them in that setting).
The one gal who talked about the futility of one person refusing to bury the live Jews when others would just do it anyway - how everybody needed to stand up together in order to be effective - really gets at how the Holocaust happened. And then to point out how what Hitler did was LEGAL because he changed the law to say that Jews were not legal persons (just like SCOTUS rewrote the Constitution in Roe v Wade by defining pre-born children out of “legal personhood”) - makes a person realize that it doesn’t work morally to say that we should just overlook abortion because after all it’s legal. It never should have been legal, just like the extermination of the Jews (and other “undesireables”) should never have been legal.
The comparison between the Holocaust and abortion highlights the rationalizations that were made to accept both, in their day. And it shows that people who can accept abortion but not the Holocaust have a philosophical contradiction that doesn’t make sense. Seeing the video would help the kids to see how to deconstruct a philosophical argument so that people can see the inconsistencies in their own thinking - in a non-offensive way.
My fear is that the parents will get mad and call it a political move if I have the kids watch the Holocaust-abortion part of this video. But it would serve some of the very academic purposes the group is about - specifically how to do philosophical analysis and debate AND the roots of what really allowed the Holocaust, particularly how we want to “mind our own business” and not stick our necks out for something so widespread and entrenched - no matter how repulsive it is.
This gives me a lot to think about.
"We are not talking about a national ID card. We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is [ahem] enhancing online security and privacy, and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted[??????????] digital identities."Indeed. "We're from the government, and we're going to help."
Back in April, it was mentioned as an "opt-in", because "We must do more to help consumers protect themselves."
;-)
“Do we get to choose our names? I want to be
\’’; DROP TABLE users; —”
With the Brain Trust that we have in there now, this would probably work.
I'm figuring whatever they come up with will be the product of a bunch of affirmative action union drones - ie a recursive clusterf*ck.
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