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Will Net Neutrality Save the Internet?

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Advocates say that “Net Neutrality” will “save the Internet.”

But does the Internet need saving?

Net Neutrality is a proposed set of regulatory powers that would grant the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the ability to control how Internet service providers (ISPs) package their services. Proponents argue that such rules are necessary to ensure that ISPs treat all data on the Internet equally and don’t slow or even restrict access to various websites and other parts of the Internet.

However well-intentioned, the practical effect will be to limit consumer choice and grant the federal government unprecedented power over the Internet, all in the name of fixing a problem that doesn’t exist in any meaningful way. Indeed, examples of the behavior that Net Neutrality will combat are few and far between.

Approximately 4 minutes. Produced and animated by Austin Bragg. Written by Zach Weissmueller.

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Obama: The Worst is Yet to Come


Obama’s planned and now-revised Cybersecurity Act of 2009

If it wasn’t before, the ultimate purpose of Dictator Barack Hussein Obama should now be clear to even his most die-hard fans. With Obama’s planned and now-revised Cybersecurity Act of 2009, his inordinately broad and sweeping powers to take control of the Internet AND private networks is making its way through the Senate.

The bill gives Obama’s Executive Branch the power to shut down the Internet for any reason he considers to be a “Cybersecurity emergency.“ That, of course, is anything Obama decides to declare an emergency. Those who have been living in a cave for the last several years might ask “What’s the reason for this suspension if not dissolution of liberty?”

The answers are:

1. Because Obama can;
2. To shut down ALL opposition to his totalitarian programs and regime;
3. To stop any and all warnings going out en masse when Obama’s initial troops begin arriving in our towns and cities.

Don’t think so? Nothing else make any sense, folks.

Note: The only good news is that many former Obama supporters are now—finally—beginning to see and feel the dictator’s relentlessly encroaching darkness. Even they don’t like it and are beginning to feel the fear move up their reinserted spines.

Obama is also now actively working to demoralize—if not completely shut down—the CIA. Does anyone else think it was even mildly coincidental that Obama already has his personal ’replacement’ interrogation team in place? Will Obama’s new and personal “security team” soon replace the entire CIA or will there still be a skeleton crew left for show purposes? Placing the now former USA (see reference video below) in jeopardy of another major attack doesn’t bother Obama in the least. Does anyone else wonder whose side Obama is on? Bye-bye CIA.

The tyrant is already going against the will of the American people with both his ObamaCare and Cap and Trade. Both of these bills are designed to further gut the country of its wealth and liberties (is there still no one who has checked the bank accounts of the ObamaFavored?) and its ability to survive. And in order to partially fund the ObamaCare multi-Trillion-dollar package (per the Congressional Budget Office), Obama plans to further raze Medicare. Bye-bye Seniors.

Note: In his column “The Ugly Truth of Obamacare” John Stossel writes: “As the government’s health care budget becomes strained, as it must—and, as Obama admits, already is under Medicare—the government will have to cut back on what it lets people have.” But, after admitting that he will cut back on Medicare benefits (called ‘rationing“), Obama continues to say he won’t ration health care to Seniors. Suffice it to say, Obama has become a Master of speaking out of both sides of his mouth—and remarkably at the same time! Obama is a classic example of the “double-minded man—unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8). Bye-bye common or any other kind of (except non) sense.

Since his usurping of the US presidency (have you heard the latest Obama birth certificate rumor that it was burned up in a fire?), Obama has instituted one assault after another against the American people. Note: No one in his or her sane mind would be doing theses things except out of hatred for the victims. Even before his “election” he spoke about his disdain for the US Constitution.

Yet, more and more people are asking “With everything going to Hell in a hand basket, why is Obama still smiling broadly?” There are actually at least two answers: 1. Because he’s setting up a White House Imperium—with all necessary private police and enhanced voter fraud units—so that he will never be forced, let alone voted, out of office; 2. Because the destruction of the USA and its “transformation” into ObamaLand was his plan all along.

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Bill Would Give Obama Emergency Control of the Internet

The real threat, not the imagined one of the Internet, is this administration. It is doing more to tear down our liberties and debase our way of life than any terror attack ever hoped to achieve.

We need to pass a Bill to give our citizens Emergency Control of the President.

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

“I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness,” said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. “It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill.”

Representatives of other large Internet and telecommunications companies expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with Rockefeller’s aides this week, but were not immediately available for interviews on Thursday.

A spokesman for Rockefeller also declined to comment on the record Thursday, saying that many people were unavailable because of the summer recess. A Senate source familiar with the bill compared the president’s power to take control of portions of the Internet to what President Bush did when grounding all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001. The source said that one primary concern was the electrical grid, and what would happen if it were attacked from a broadband connection.

When Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the original bill in April, they claimed it was vital to protect national cybersecurity. “We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs–from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records,” Rockefeller said.

The Rockefeller proposal plays out against a broader concern in Washington, D.C., about the government’s role in cybersecurity. In May, President Obama acknowledged that the government is “not as prepared” as it should be to respond to disruptions and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff. Three months later, that post remains empty, one top cybersecurity aide has quit, and some wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private sector what to do.

Rockefeller’s revised legislation seeks to reshuffle the way the federal government addresses the topic. It requires a “cybersecurity workforce plan” from every federal agency, a “dashboard” pilot project, measurements of hiring effectiveness, and the implementation of a “comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy” in six months–even though its mandatory legal review will take a year to complete.

The privacy implications of sweeping changes implemented before the legal review is finished worry Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. “As soon as you’re saying that the federal government is going to be exercising this kind of power over private networks, it’s going to be a really big issue,” he says.

Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to “direct the national response to the cyber threat” if necessary for “the national defense and security.” The White House is supposed to engage in “periodic mapping” of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies “shall share” requested information with the federal government. (“Cyber” is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.)

“The language has changed but it doesn’t contain any real additional limits,” EFF’s Tien says. “It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous (version)…The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There’s no provision for any administrative process or review. That’s where the problems seem to start. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it.”

Translation: If your company is deemed “critical,” a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.

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