Orwell’s Prophesy Begins… Team Obama’s Clandestine “Big Brother” Approach to Controlling Internet: So-Called “Government Licensing” for ‘Net Access
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 7, 2010
On paper, this government licensing for computers must have seemed like a brilliant idea to our liberal, power-grabbing federal government — a way to open the door a bit and sneak in the beginning of insidious government control over the Internet. Freedom of speech is on the line. AGAIN.
Americans are paying attention, you statist asses.
Anyone see problems with this latest Big Brother proposal, conveniently proposed by *cough* Microsoft?
Serious problems?
Former Microsoft emperor Bill Gates is a flaming liberal (which is so bizarre and hypocritical, since free market principles and Bush tax breaks enabled Gates to become the multi-gazillionaire that he is) and he’s donated gazillions to Obama’s and other Democrats’ political campaigns over the years.
The same government that would be in control of this supposed “guarding” of the Internet, blocking home computers from access, just stupidly sent out a boatload of stimulus checks — 89,000, plus or minus — to DEAD PEOPLE.
This is the same government that thought it was a peachy idea last year for Americans to rat fink on their neighbors to the White House via the Internet if they didn’t like or support ObamaCare.
The same government that tried to quietly ban undefined “controversial speech” on the Internet just this past July. They hastily dropped it once public outcry (and even produced outcry from some liberal reporters) soared… or so it appeared at the time.
The same government that’s tried on a number of occasions to silence free speech (translation: any speech that isn’t flattering to Barack Obama or his minions) and launched vicious character attacks and boycotts against private citizens/commentators/entertainers who are conservative, such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
The same government that has been arrogantly cramming the trillion-dollar ObamaCare disaster (1 in 4 DEMOCRAT voters now want it repealed) and other taxpayer-funded programs and policies down the throats of unwilling Americans, the majority of whom object to the socialist-progressive agenda and want the spendthrift, power-hungry weasels in DC to STOP IT ALREADY and listen to “We The People.”
Author of 1984 George Orwell has been rolling over in his grave so much for the past 20 months, the bones of his corpse must be polished smooth like opals by now.
They say this is to “protect” cyberspace… yes, that’s the spin they’ve chosen. For now.
Gradualism in action.
From HealthMaybe, Government Licensing Internet – Microsoft’s Proposal Will Grant Access:
Government Licensing Internet Microsoft Proposal Will Grant Access. A brand new proposal by a top Microsoft executive would open the doorway for government licensing to access the internet, with authorities becoming empowered to block individual computers from connecting towards the world extensive internet under the pretext of stopping malware attacks.
Talking to the ISSE 2010 pc safety conference in Berlin yesterday, Scott Charney, Microsoft vice president of Trustworthy Computing, mentioned that cybersecurity ought to mirror public well being security laws, with contaminated PC’s being “quarantined” by government decree and prevented from accessing the web.
“If a gadget is known to become a danger to the web, the person ought to be notified and the device ought to be cleaned before it’s permitted unfettered entry to the web, minimizing the danger of the contaminated gadget contaminating other devices,” Charney mentioned.
Charney mentioned the program would be a “global collective defense” run by firms and authorities and would “track and control” people’s computers similar to how government well being bodies track diseases.
Invoking the risk of malware attacks as being a indicates of dissuading or blocking individuals from utilizing the internet is becoming a typical theme – but it is 1 tainted with political overtones.
On the launch with the Obama administration’s cybersecurity agenda previously this year, Democrats tried to claim that the independent news web site The Drudge Report was serving malware, an incident Senator Jim Inhofe described as a deliberate ploy “to discourage individuals from utilizing Drudge”.
Beneath the brand new proposals, not only would the authorities cite the risk of malware to prevent individuals from going to Drudge, they could be blocked from the entire world wide internet, creating a dangerous precedent by giving authorities the power to dictate whether individuals can use the web and effectively opening the doorway for a licensing system to become introduced.
From ZDNet, You must be at least this secure to ride on the Internet:
Microsoft’s Corporate VP of Trustworthy Computing, Scott Charney, has just suggested, that “Just as when an individual who is not vaccinated puts others’ health at risk, computers that are not protected or have been compromised with a bot put others at risk and pose a greater threat to society. In the physical world, international, national, and local health organizations identify, track and control the spread of disease which can include, where necessary, quarantining people to avoid the infection of others. Simply put, we need to improve and maintain the health of consumer devices connected to the Internet in order to avoid greater societal risk. To realize this vision, there are steps that can be taken by governments, the IT industry, Internet access providers, users and others to evaluate the health of consumer devices before granting them unfettered access to the Internet or other critical resources.”
In other words, if your device isn’t protected, sorry, you can’t go on the Internet. I find this more than a little ironic coming from a Microsoft executive. After all, Windows is the host for 99.4% of all malware according to G Data, a German IT security company. That’s sounds about right.
So, logically, the best thing to do would be to ban Windows from the Internet! OK, while I can get behind that idea, that’s not going to happen.
Warner Todd Houston, guest blogger at Gateway Pundit, has written extensively about the imminent Internet/freedom of speech takeover by Team Obama. Last week, Houston wrote about one of Obama’s latest tactics. Dear Leader pledged to preserve a “free and open Internet” and would call out nations that tried to censor content. Uh, but not really: As Obama Pretends at Its Freedom, His Gov’t Plans Takeover of Internet:
…Yet even as Obama stood giving high sounding words to a “free and open Internet” and scolding other nations that have oppressive controls on Internet access for their own citizens, Barack Obama’s own government has itself been quietly making plans to take over the Internet from private companies.
Obama’s Federal Communications Commission Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has been angling to use telephone regulations from the 1930s to try and take over full control of the Internet.
One wonders how Obama can have the gall to claim that he wants a “free and open” Internet when he is trying to take control of it himself? How long would the Internet stay “free and open” once the federal government takes hold of it and begins to decide what will be allowed and not allowed over it’s infrastructure?
As always, Barack Obama talks out of both sides of his mouth claiming all at once that he is for open access, and promoting new technologies and businesses while at the same time making plans for Bi Government to control it all from Washington.
Henry Waxman (D, CA), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, also seems to be very confused about what is going on with the idea of the FCC grabbing control over the Internet.
On one day this week he wanted to introduce legislation that would put Congress in the driver’s seat on regulation thereby cutting out the FCC from regulating the Internet, but then the very next day he reversed himself 100% and decided it wouldn’t be a good idea. It is a bit hard to understand such a whiplash-inducing move but it has happened nonetheless.
Still, if Congress takes up a consideration of how to handle the Internet this should forestall the FCC’s attempts to forcibly take over the Internet via fiat regulation.
Anyone interested in keeping the government’s hands off the full control of the Internet should pressure Waxman to take up his original position.
Others that can put off the FCC’s power grab are Marsha Blackburn (R, TN) — who has come out in opposition to government control of the Internet — and Rep. Rick Boucher (D, VA), another member of Energy and Commerce Committee.
A good mode of pressure is to cite a new poll that says that the public is not in favor of the government take over of the Internet.
BroadbandforAmerica.com has an interesting report about a survey made by Hart Research Associates that seems to indicate that there is “substantial opposition to government Internet regulation.”
The survey shows that 75 percent oppose government regulation with 55 percent saying that government should not regulate the Internet at all.
Excellent observations and questions posed at Death By 1000 Papercuts… Government Licensing Internet: Microsoft Blames Infected PC’s as Reason to License Internet Users:
Prison Planet’s Microsoft Proposal Opens Door For Government Licensing To Access Internet is a highly informative read including the report of Microsoft’s involvement in what looks to be a push to ‘license’ individual PC’s, PC’s that have been infected by a virus, blocked from using the internet until they’re ‘clean’. How ironic is that? Microsoft with their bug infested Windows operating systems which allow PC’s to become infected by computer viruses claiming the problem is ‘individual’ PC’s. Fixing the problem, individual PC’s regulated by the government and ‘corporations’. The PC dubbed dangerous, blocked from the internet until it’s ‘clean’. Really? Who will do the official checkup to ‘deter’ the PC is virus-free? The entity who will have free reign with your PC’s registry and the entire contents of your computers including searching each and every individual file for the ‘virus’.
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What about Androids, IPads and IPhones, will these devices be included as ‘devices’ which could be ‘dangerous’ to the internet, registered with the ‘government’ then ‘monitored’ by the government and ‘corporations’ for ‘viruses’? Users forced to get a ‘license’ from the government before they can use them?
The business of a ‘quarantine’ on an individual PC. Since Microsoft is Windows with a history of bugs which have allowed PC’s to become infected, why hasn’t there been any discussions about Microsoft? Why is Microsoft blaming their PC Window operated victims including yours truly?
George Orwell's prophetic novel of government tyranny, 1984
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Thanks, Vicki.
Very important to keep a close eye on this evil. The internet is the last bastion of free speech. No government control of it!
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