KISS YOUR INTERNET GOOD-BYE

[tombldr]

KISS YOUR INTERNET GOOD-BYE

excerpt:

"...Therefore, what will they do? Very simple: They will destroy it. The only solution to solve the Internet's growing challenge to the media monopoly is to shut it down and throw the key away.

How it will happen? One of these days, out of the blue, the Internet will be used for launching a devastating terrorist attack on the United States. Somehow, this cyberattack will cost the lives of scores of American citizens. In order to avoid more damage, the government, putting to good use the recently approved anti-terrorist laws, will shut the Internet down and ban the use of the Internet as we know it.

But most government agencies rely heavily on the Internet. How can they function without it? No problem. The replacement already exists; it is called Internet 2, reportedly a consortium being led by more than 200 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. But, contrary to the deceptive techno-babbling rhetoric, Internet 2 is nothing more than a controlled Internet, similar to the one currently in place in totalitarian countries like China and Cuba.

Internet 2 will be fully controlled by the state. In order to access it, or to have e-mail access, you must be a member of, or be affiliated to, any of the government-authorized organizations and have a sort of security clearance. Internet 2 will be out of the reach of the general public, and every person trying to have unauthorized access to Internet 2 will be charged with terrorist activities, and severely penalized

The unavoidable fact is that the Internet is incompatible with a totalitarian system of government. Therefore, either we are a bunch of delusionary paranoids, and what we see happening in this country is only a figment of our feverished imagination, and, consequently, the Internet will not be banned, or we are right, and it will disappear. Actually, the disappearance of the current free Internet will serve as a litmus test that will accurately mark our final loss of freedom.

The banning of the Internet, the cancellation of the Second Amendment rights, and the closing of our borders -- not to stop illegals from entering the country, but to stop Americans from fleeing it -- in exactly that order, will be important steps in the implementation of this evil plan...."

[calabi-yau]

I read the PNAC over a year ago. That was before I had joined any internet discussion forums such as this one or SC.
Control of cyberspace is written black on white in the PNAC and Dean's internet campaign success will probably hasten its advent .
Internet is about connecting people and does it ever.
I have taken this last year to look into the phenomenon as a full participant and also as an observer about how it affects relationships, discourse, outlook etc...
SC is a good example. From an all-out Bush bashing and everything connected to it, members are more and more being manipulated into a single line of thinking. TSC owners (and their owners and masters) are molding chimpsters into their own kind of "Freepers."
And so it is with new communications. There is the technological control aspect to be looked into and the psychological control of viewers, readers and surfers.
Control has been a raving success in both the press and broadcast media, now it is the internet's turn to get the full treatment.
Very sad and very frightening.

[karpomrx]

And here I thought the brownscum were tolerating all this free discussion because they knew the general populace won't/can't read!
I do wish there were some way to measure how many people are more than just suspicious about the war on terra and the attack on freedom.
My fellow citizens regard me as a creature from another world as it is. When I ask about the "evidence" given to us proles to help us get in line,almost everyone shakes their heads in a knowing way, and with a wink or a nod to the fellow bund members, dismiss me as a whacko.
Where is the danger to the Great Leader from me?
We are separated by a common language.

[calabi-yau]

Internet use is the ultimate danger for those who would want to keep us "whackos" under control. Well not so much us whackos as the voice and language we speak and share.

It has been my experience that those who do not follow without questioning why first are usually the brightest amongst any group. Curiosity seems to be the first ingredient for attaining a higher level of discourse, knowledge, experience and intelligence. Because of its exoteric nature, the internet provides too many answers for those who seek.

When I was young, I'd often hear this phrase in my entourage: " Sois belle et tais-toi !"
Thank goodness, I followed my father's advice instead: " Tu es belle, tu es fine, tu es intelligente et tu craches loin...vas-y ma grande ! " He also was a seeker of answers.