Microsoft has proposed that the government should be allowed to deny individual computers, and thereby individuals, from accessing the Internet.
The Internet’s easy to access. It only has three components: ISP, computer, web browser. It’s about as complex as getting on a bus.
It likely won’t be this way in the future, especially when it, like every form of communication and transportation in this country, becomes government-regulated. The first step is government licensing on the internet.
In a nutshell, government authorities will have good authority to block computers from accessing the web for preventative measures, such as blocking infected computers from spreading malware to the web.
This comes only a year after the Internet “kill switch” was introduced, which would give the president the emergency power to shut off the Internet. The web is already central to American life, yet the government wields very little control over it. I suppose this is a matter national security.
Whenever the government suggests it gain control of something for preventive measures I want to barf right where I’m standing. The transparency is infuriating and demonstrates cosmic hubris. Look at where preventive warfare got us.
The more I think about “Super Sad True Love Story,” the more depressed I get. What will be the future of Internet access? We will be serialized, like we are when we drive a car or take a plane? Will retina scans accompany hopping online? Nothing would be shocking.
Social media may be a race to the bottom, and blogs may be a recipe for idiocracy, as Nick Denton puts it. But something tells me the government just loves it. Big brother? We wired ourselves.
October 08, 2010 at 12:44 am, btok said:
These Globalists and the Main Stream Media who work under their owners ( Globalists like, Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner ), will do anything and are trying to do anything to stop people from communicating and of course it is always the con-job story of safety against viruses and protection for security!
Reality: This type of protection is being practiced to shut us up about the reality of the truth and the criminal actions our criminal Government and Elitist Corporations are performing to attain their long term goal of ending freedom and ultimately killing humanity, all except those who they retain as slaves and specimens for Eugenics experiments!
Protest any licencing or censoring of the internet, vote out establishment sympathizing politicans, vote in Constitutional following Independent candidates, in the Congressional election Nov. 2, 2010
Stand up for your family, friends, future generations and mankind!
This is no joke and there is no time to doddle, this is serious tyranny from psychopathic tyrants, I kid you not!
Linux and new software, here I come! Microsoft is also being a traitor to it's customers in this matter!
Everybody is a traitor these days, makes Benedict Arnold look like a Patriot!
October 10, 2010 at 6:54 am, sabretruthtiger said:
btok, my hat is off to you. You summed it up brilliantly!
Society may be comprised largely of apathetic sheep of sub par intelligence but more and more people are waking up and when their precious internet is threatened, there's going to be repercussions.
October 21, 2010 at 4:24 am, Eugoogaly said:
OTOH, thank God the government regulates our interaction with each other on public road ways. I know it's not popular in the neo-libertarianism that seems popular these days, but the government does do some things good. That's why you don't spontaneously see thriving and healthy markets open in areas that government has broken down, some regulation is a good thing and is the mark of civilization.
That being said, I'm not saying Microsoft's proposal is a good one. It isn't, it's pure self serving crap on their part. They make the vast majority of compromised systems on the net and rather than own up to the fact that it's a failure of their poor security design, they're trying to drag the government into it and you can bet that money spent on the project will just so happen to go Microsoft's way somehow.
They cultivate the disease and then ask us to pay for a cure.
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