Thread: GASP--Unplugging the Internet WTF!!!!

Unplugging the Internet

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Posted: April 06, 2009
10:32 pm Eastern

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Two Democrats and a Republican – or perhaps I should say three "Democrats" in the Senate, have moved the ball further down the court to controlling and shutting down the Internet. What?!
That's right. Senate Bill 773, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 written by Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va.; Bill Nelson, D-Fla.; and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, would give the president and the Commerce Department unlimited power to declare an emergency and pull the plug.
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air writes that the bill addresses the need to protect vital networks from cyber attack, but gives a lot of power to the executive branch – perhaps too much power.


"Raising eyebrows is Section 14 in which the Commerce Secretary has access to all relevant data concerning federal and public networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access; and Section 18, Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network."
Morrissey believes Section 14 may be a bigger problem.
"It essentially revokes all privacy safeguards on Internet use for all networks. The Fourth Amendment would go straight out the window with the explicit inclusion of 'private sector owned critical infrastructure information systems and networks.' While Section 18 limits jurisdiction to federal networks, Section 14 allows the government to go after private networks without search warrants. The section also doesn't limit the jurisdiction to acute attacks, either. That jurisdiction exists at all times. The big problem isn't that Obama might shut down the Internet. It's that the bill essentially repeals the Fourth Amendment."
S. 773 should be carefully tracked by all Internet users at GOVTRACK, which I mentioned in one of my previous columns. Or at Open Congress.

Of course they would want to pull the internet in case of a state of emergency. They wouldn't want us knowing anything that they didn't want us to know. And think of this, with everything going digital, just another way for the government to control what we could find out. Digital makes it easier for them to scramble signals.

............ STATE TELEVISION anyone??? .............

dh: honey, they just bombed downtown
me: not right now dear, I have to check in at BBS first.

Originally Posted by atprm

dh: honey, they just bombed downtown
me: not right now dear, I have to check in at BBS first.

Yeah ... just so you could scoop me on the story !

Of course they would want to pull the internet in case of a state of emergency. They wouldn't want us knowing anything that they didn't want us to know.

When the power was out after the Storms in '05, cell service and tv and radio towers were all down ... the only way to get news was via internet. One of the primary complaints about the FORCED digital conversion is that the small "emergancy tv's" will not be able to pick up signals if they do not have power for the converter boxes.


"Power is not in money anymore ... it is in who controls the INFORMATION"

In our ice storm of '06, the only communication was via satellite internet/ham radio.

Katrina, same thing out of those areas.

It's all about control and I can't believe Americans aren't taking a stand against this stuff.