HR 6506, called the SHIELD Act (Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination), is a companion bill to a Senate bill introduced earlier this month by senators Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), John Ensign (R-Nev.), and Scott Brown (R-Mass.). Both bills would amend U.S. Code Title...
Approximately 70 websites have been seized by the Federal government. Looks like it has happened under none other than the Department of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown
A woman posted a single satirical sentence on her Twitter page and she was arrested, and sentenced to one year of forced labor in a Chinese prison.
Reading this story really made me wish we had Forced Manual Labor Camps in America. :noway:
Woman may be 'first in China' persecuted over tweet -...
Of course this power-grab is all done in the name of combating "internet pirates." The Federal Government is preparing to censor internet websites, block IP addresses, and otherwise prevent Americans from seeing information on any website they choose to block.
Pirate-slaying censorship...
The City of Philadelphia recently began requiring bloggers who have ads on their site to pay The Man a $50 per year fee for the privilege. Most blogs do not generate very much in advertising revenue so it ends up being a net loss to run their blog instead of it working out that advertisers help...
Awwww. Poor .gov can't keep up with technology so they want to slow things down and insert lots of back doors so they can more easily invade peoples privacy. All in the name of the War on People. If government can't keep up, well that's just too danged bad. Sorry that technology is getting in...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html?_r=1&adxnnlx=1285585041-qwHaAXfRyfn5B6GrQ8kkvQ&pagewanted=all
I thought that Obama was against all this?
You think he only said that during his campaign to get elected? :n00b:
The part I like best is that we, as taxpayers, get to help pay...
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Further correspondence received the following response:
…and a later clarification:
Looks like it's gonna get alot worse.
Nothing wakes up the idiots like having blogs terminated :rolleyes:
No stone left uncovered. The gubmint wants to give you one internet license. And be able to identify your use. Perhaps they don't come out and say that, all in due time. :)
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The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace |...
Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers
‘Kill switch’ bill approved, moves to Senate floor
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, June 25, 2010
President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without...
"A new bill rocketing through Congress would give the president sweeping powers to police the Web for national-security reasons. Could this be a way to block WikiLeaks?"
More at the souce: New Bill Would Let Obama Police Internet for National Security Reasons - The Daily Beast
Absolutely...
Joe Lieberman wants to give the president the power to control the internet. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. I don't care who's in office, they don't need the power to turn off, or control the internet. This is a bad idea, regardless of which idiot is in the White House. And creating a...
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet | Politics and Law - CNET News
How hard would it be for someone to manufacture a "cyber-crisis" in order to give themselves a reason to grasp control of the internet...