U.S. Government Proposes "Internet Kill Switch"

[MetalGenocide]

And this will get passed just like the Patriot act and all that nonsense.
Of course, the people will do nothing about it, but complain, instead of seriously moving to abolish it.

 

[itsnotyouitsme]

Yeah... The government is pretty fuking retarded.

 

[cainstwin]

I would argue that the internet is an idea, and whoever thought of making a network accessible by anyone at all is the inventor of it. From what i know, and seeing as he was marked out from a team of people who would have been working on HTML it sounds like it would have been his idea to make a globaly accesible network, or world wide web.

HTML has nothing to do with networking. It has to do with making text data accessible by splitting data and formatting. The Internet and HTML are entirely separate ideas. Once you can finally understand that you can start to understand the power of the Internet.

The Internet is about creating a pathway for data to flow from one processing unit to another regardless of what the information is. The pathway is created from a network of networks sometimes referred to as "The Cloud", because the route is unknown at the time of transmission. Your data will find it's way by using road signs provided by routers as they proceed to their destination. The Internet is passive this way. It's just a set of routes to travel and isn't interested in what is traveling on it.

TLDR: The Internet is not HTML. HTML does not need the Internet to exist. It just so happens that HTML was one of a few platform independent standards for text formatting and became a defacto standard across a platformless Internet.

i know that
what i was actually saying is that him and his team are generally regarded as having invented the internet so you would assume it was thier idea to make a glabaly accessible public network. As soon as you can get the idea of intellectual property in to ur head the quicker this will be

 

[CaptainKoala]

Oh, Lieberman! What zany right-wing paranoid fear-mongering will you bring us next? And, more importantly, what civil liberties crushing solution will you propose?

Gut miranda rights? Check. Deny accused criminals other basic rights? Check. Pave the way for a government seizure of the internet? Check.

Joe Lieberman is one of the most LEFT-winged politicians in the US today. Not right-winged. And when were criminals deprived of their rights?

 

[Kuchinawa212]

But that would prohibit our freedom of speech or expression. Which the US goverment can't do. Also they cannot forcefully remove us from peaceful gatherings. Like internet chat rooms (work with me here) so that means if this passes, it's unconstitutional

 

[craddoke]

Oh, Lieberman! What zany right-wing paranoid fear-mongering will you bring us next? And, more importantly, what civil liberties crushing solution will you propose?

Gut miranda rights? Check. Deny accused criminals other basic rights? Check. Pave the way for a government seizure of the internet? Check.

Joe Lieberman is one of the most LEFT-winged politicians in the US today. Not right-winged. And when were criminals deprived of their rights?

Just proves how poor a job the mainstream media (especially Fox News) does - people cannot even tell the difference between liberals and conservatives anymore. Or are you just one of those tea party 'morans' who believe anyone to the left of Glenn Beck is a card-carrying communist?

 

[Atmos Duality]

Joe Lieberman is one of the most LEFT-winged politicians in the US today. Not right-winged. And when were criminals deprived of their rights?

2001-2002. Patriot Act.
The legal gaps it creates are astonishing, and often hypocritical at best.

 

[someotherguy]

The trouble with the internet is it was designed to withstand Nuclear attacks. You can't stop the signal.

Snip

You do realize that the road sign hacking can be done by anyone with two hands, right? It literally takes a crow bar, or pliers to get the door open and type in what you please.

 

[trooperpaul]

Has anyone else noticed the US becoming more and more like it is in soviet propaganda?
http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/p_list.php

 

[Popido]

*necro necro*
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/kill-switch-legislation/
Looks like they're trying to push it forward even harder now that egypts gone all silly.

 

[AetherWolf]

I dunno why people are so upset by this. Of course this had to be done, and I'm surprised it wasn't already.

 

[chuckman1]

No, just no.
Is anyone else reminded of china?

 

[Saviordd1]

While i hate to rain on everybodys hate parade id like to point out (as a Connecticut person myself) that Lieberman has been insane for years and this will be one of those things congress nods at sadly to make him happy then puts through a stove

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

No government should have that power

 

[Schreck157]

No government should have that power

That's precisely what the Egyptian government has done with the revolution occurring over there. Their government realized that the movement was gaining most of it's publicity from youtube/twitter/facebook/ etc. So the Egyptian government turn off their internet.

 

[WeBeNukin]

This would be a great idea if our government was 100% trustworthy (its not). As demonstrated in the recent middle eastern revolutions, when the s*** hits the fan on a national scale the internet is your only hope.