Do Democrats Plan to Control the Internet?
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) has introduced legislation that would transfer even more power from the people and the Congress to the Executive Branch of Government. The legislation is supposedly designed to promote cybersecurity, but it has little to do with protecting government sites such as those in the Pentagon from cyber attacks by our enemies. Instead, it targets the private use of the Internet by millions of Americans every day.
There are two key provisions of the bill and both of them contain direct assaults on freedom of speech and the press. First, the law would allow President Obama to seize control of privately operated Internet networks during a “Cyber Emergency.” What is a “Cyber Emergency?” There is no definition of it in the legislation so it is essentially anything the President decides. He can shut down massive portions of the Internet at any time for any reason.
The bill also allows the Executive Branch to control the Internet by requiring that certain operators of networks that are deemed “critical” by the government must be operated by “professionals” licensed by the government. The definitions of the terms “critical” and “professionals” are again left entirely to the Obama Administration.
Michael Connelly is a retired constitutional lawyer and former military intelligence officer who saw same form of Internet control exercised in Iran when protests broke out after a clearly fraudulent election. Do Democrats plan to do the same thing against the United States? What would happen to our efforts to petition the government for “a redress of our grievances” if we were denied the means to communicate with each other?
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October 19th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Why, with that Goofy grin and smooth-as-silk soothing voice telling us all, “Trust me!”, just makes my leg shiver and makes me want to hand over the keys to the kingdom right now. Almost. A little.
OK, I wouldn’t trust anything that gives Duh-1 any more defined power, let alone carte blanche to do what he will with anything, let alone with the only source of information that’s semi-reliable occasionally. People like Rockyfeller need to be at the front of the admission lines to the “re-education” camps when they are opened up compliments of Duh Great One.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Obama’s bible “Rules for Radicals”, by Sol Alinsky makes the point that radicals need to be “inconvenient”. Now that Fox News and the internet has turned that on its head, and become inconvenient to Obama, they have to be controlled.
Kind of ironic , eh?