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Senate Bill 773 and 778 introduced by, introduced by Senator Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., are being called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which would create a new Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor(just what we need an Internet Czar), reportable directly to the president and is supposedly responsible for defending the country from cyber attack. I have a feeling that it is going to be like Big Brother watching over all of us.
A working draft of the legislation obtained by an Internet privacy group also indicates future plans to grant the Secretary of Commerce access to all privately owned information networks deemed to be critical to the nation’s infrastructure “without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access.”
I don’t know about you but I don’t like giving the President and his cronies this much power. This flies in the face of our Constitution and severly restricts the rights of private citizens and private business. But what’s new? Our Constitional Rights have been slowly taken away for a long time. At some point the people will either capitulate or rise against the tyranny.
Damn straight, rise up.
Maybe “we” shouldn’t have invented the internet?? because of all the attacks on the pentagon?? Whatever!! It is OK with me if the pentagon stops using the internet.
I think we would all agree limit government’s use of the internet. The internet belongs to the people not to any government. Look for upcoming ways for the government to start taxing it!
Fear mongers trying to get more money from us and put more control over us. There should not be any question of our national security being attacked due to the internet. If our government has servers with sensitive data online it is their own fault and they deserve what they get. Having lights, air traffic or any of that mixed in with a civilian network is just pure ignorance and I am sorry but I know damn well our government is not that stupid, or are they?
So true. I do believe that certain parts of the government are really that stupid. Politicians are generally either failed businessmen or educated elites with no business experience at all.
If they fear the internet, they need to stop using it. If banks, etc have fear of hacking, or whatever, they need to stop using it. But we all know the real truth! It’s about power, control, and money.
I’ve heard of studies reporting the one cent tax on all E-mails would pay off the national debt in one year.