Internet Censorship

Federal Authority Over the Internet? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009

April 15, 2009

The Electronic Frontier Foundation - There’s a new bill working its way through Congress that is cause for some alarm: the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 ( PDF summary here), introduced by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME). The bill as it exists now risks giving the federal government unprecedented power over the Internet without necessarily improving security in the ways that matter most. It should be opposed or radically amended.

Essentially, the Act would federalize critical infrastructure security. Since many of our critical infrastructure systems (banks, telecommunications, energy) are in the hands of the private sector, the bill would create a major shift of power away from users and companies to the federal government. This is a potentially dangerous approach that favors the dramatic over the sober response.

One proposed provision, which gives the President unfettered authority to shut down Internet traffic in an emergency and disconnect critical infrastructure systems on national security, grounds goes too far. Certainly there are times when a network owner must block harmful traffic, but the bill gives no guidance on when or how the President could responsibly pull the kill switch on privately-owned and operated networks...

Feds Plan to Take Over Cybersecurity, Enforce Regulations on Private Industry

April 1, 2009

Washington Post - The proposals, in Senate legislation that could be introduced as early as today, would broaden the focus of the government’s cybersecurity efforts to include not only military networks but also private systems that control essentials such as electricity and water distribution...

Cybersecurity Act of 2009

April 6, 2009

Infowars - ...Obama’s internet agenda is an extension of his effort to impose government control over the private sector. Republicans call this socialism. In a way it is socialism, but not the kind you were told about in high school—it is a socialism devised by the Trilateralists and Council on Foreign Relations. It is a system of control that will be imposed by the bankers, and it has nothing to do with equality for all individuals or a fair or egalitarian method of compensation for workers. Banker socialism is about serfdom and poverty.

It should be obvious what is going on here. Not 'if' but 'when' the next false flag attack occurs here in America, the elite will turn off the internet in order to control the flow of information. They will tell us they were forced to do this in order to deny terrorists in caves or driving around with Ron Paul bumper stickers on their cars the ability to sabotage the power grid and banks...

Blitz of “Cyber Attacks” as Rockefeller Bill Approaches

International Copyright Law to Attack PC Privacy

March 26, 2009

Russia Today - The personal computer may soon be not-so-private, with the U.S. and some European nations working on laws allowing them access to search the content held on a person’s hard drive....

Rockefeller: Internet is 'Number One National Hazard'

March 23, 2009

Infowars - According to the great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller, nephew of banker David Rockefeller, and former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, the internet represents a serious threat to national security. Rockefeller is not alone in this assessment. His belief that the internet is the “number one national hazard” to national security is shared by the former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and Obama’s current director Admiral Dennis C. Blair...

However, the real threat to internet freedom is currently posed by IT and ISP corporations, not the government. As Alex Jones explained last June, large corporate ISPs are now in the process of imposing bandwidth caps and routing traffic over their networks and blocking certain targeted websites...

VIDEO: Rockefeller Pontificates on the National Security Threat Posed by the Internet
VIDEO: Alex Jones Show on 'the Death of the Internet'
One in Four UK Government Websites are Illegal

In Australia, Banned Hyperlinks Could Cost You $11,000 a Day

March 17, 2009

Sydney Morning Herald - The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower site Wikileaks.

Cybersecurity Chief Resigns

March 11, 2009

Wall Street Journal - The government's coordinator for cybersecurity programs, Rod Beckstrom, has quit, criticizing what he described as the National Security Agency's grip on cybersecurity. Mr. Beckstrom's National Cybersecurity Center, created last March to coordinate all government cybersecurity efforts, answers to the secretary of Homeland Security.

In reality, "NSA currently dominates most national cyber efforts," Mr. Beckstrom wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday. "While acknowledging the critical importance of NSA to our intelligence efforts, I believe this is a bad strategy on multiple grounds."

He added that "the threats to our democratic processes are significant if all top level government network security and monitoring are handled by any one organization (either directly or indirectly)." That echoed the view of some privacy advocates who worry about a government agency having too much information on individuals...

New York Times Calls for Internet 2

February 16, 2009

Infowars Editor’s Note: According to Markoff, the internet is so flawed and clogged with viruses, the only solution is to scrap it and start over. He suggests a “gated community” where users give up their anonymity and freedom in return for safety. Sounds like the same version of the internet our rulers have in mind.