U.S. Government Proposes "Internet Kill Switch"

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ionpulse2

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Leiberman: I ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE INTERNETS!

The World: THE WHOLE THING?!??!

(EDIT: I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.)
 

darkroot

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That flase and homosexual, misleading and bicurions, wrong and ....not straight. Screw the US goverment thinking it could just turn off the internet when it wan'ts to the internet does no belong to anyone if they mess with the internet the internet will just mess them the ____ up.
 

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feather240 said:
Lizmichi said:
Grouchy Imp said:
Lizmichi said:
Oh my good lord. I can see it now, so we'll lose words in our language and they'll be able to listen to us threw our TVs. If anyone gets what I'm referencing I will be surprised.
1984.

Although this sounds like another knee-jerk reactionary scare story to me.
Yay someone reads. Someone reads a good book too. Yea I hope this is just a farce so I don't have to start making sighs and find some way to DC and protest this. Cause I will.
...and I knew I'd get beaten to it. -,- Okay, but it's time for round two. If 1984 plays on our fear which books dystopia plays on our pleasures?
That would be Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Do I win anything?
 

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thenumberthirteen said:
Don't scoff at the risk this could be Cyber 9/11 times 1000!

The trouble with the internet is it was designed to withstand Nuclear attacks. You can't stop the signal.
Wow, that would be Cyber 911,000!
 

Dfskelleton

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Cyber 9/11? How would that work? Do the terrorists attack a monument with a cyber suit or a cyberdemon? If so, we can just shoot it until it dies. Not joking though, the horrors of 9/11 can not be recreated on the internet. Mainly, people won't die, unless the terrorists somehow figure out how to turn our computer monitors into malicious floating cyber squids with chainguns and the screen filled with Osama Bin Laden's face. I doubt that.
 

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To me, this sounds like an ability to switch off the internet whenever free speech or free access to information becomes too inconvinient for goverments.

Is this something to take that seriously? It feels as if politicians attempt to make people paranoid in order to impose laws that work to their own advantage in some way.
 

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I just hope the cyber-officials can come up with some cyber-defense strategies for the cyber-events which cyber-threaten the cyber-lifestyle we've all cyber-become cyber-used to... cyber....

Seriously, "cyber" is to this article what "spcae" is to the Metroid series.
 

ionpulse2

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Dalton Frantz said:
thenumberthirteen said:
Don't scoff at the risk this could be Cyber 9/11 times 1000!

The trouble with the internet is it was designed to withstand Nuclear attacks. You can't stop the signal.
Wow, that would be Cyber 911,000!
Americans: LEIBERMAN, WHAT DOES THE SCOUTER SAY ABOUT CYBER 9/11's POWER LEVEL?

Leiberman: ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The World: WHAT 9000!?
 

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Running with the 9/11 allegory: shutting the entirety of the US internet holdings down when trouble comes a-calling, would be equivalent to demolishing the entire city of new york when the planes crossed city limits.
 

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I got the ref Lizmichi.

Sadly it looks like its going that way.. complete OTT bull used as an excuse to give them more power, I'm in England and thats still scary.

Anyway I'm off to get some Victory Gin.
 

soapyshooter

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GOD! why wont Lieberman just die already. The bastard is a traitor that left his party to split votes and win. He is a thieving, conniving *****
 

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Alright everyone, The Government here... We will be installing bombs underneath all your houses just in case your house should ever become a breeding ground for aliens!
 

HK_01

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Sounds like it could be used to just cut off the information supply at will. Too much like the powers of a dictator to me.
 

soapyshooter

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Danik93 said:
GrinningManiac said:
HA! Loving the mocking, Mr. Chalk. Cyber-this and Cyber-that

Mr. Government,
[/i]You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means[/i]

OT: Is this just for the US? Cus I'm questioning why they would have any right to turn off British internet, considering A) They HAVE no right and B) We technically invented it
I thought that the US military invented it? please tell me more!
The internet, dial up, they earliest form was invented by the Department of Defense for secure communication for the US military. It was a really complicated yet basic form of IMing. CERN, the european civilian agency that runs the LHC tweaked (actually it was one guy working at CERN, not the entire agency) it so that it could be accessible to anyone and not just people who knew complicated code. The people at CERN did this because they needed a way to quickly transmit and receive data from scientists around the world, to share research and all that good stuff
 

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Owyn_Merrilin said:
feather240 said:
Lizmichi said:
Grouchy Imp said:
Lizmichi said:
Oh my good lord. I can see it now, so we'll lose words in our language and they'll be able to listen to us threw our TVs. If anyone gets what I'm referencing I will be surprised.
1984.

Although this sounds like another knee-jerk reactionary scare story to me.
Yay someone reads. Someone reads a good book too. Yea I hope this is just a farce so I don't have to start making sighs and find some way to DC and protest this. Cause I will.
...and I knew I'd get beaten to it. -,- Okay, but it's time for round two. If 1984 plays on our fear which books dystopia plays on our pleasures?
That would be Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Do I win anything?
Yes, you can has cookie.