Obama Planning To Give Commerce Department Authority To Create Internet ID...

[Mr.Fitnah]

Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans - Tech Talk - CBS News

 

[Liberty]

the leftist morons obviously support this, as they support everything the MESSiah says...

...sheep.

 

[shintao]

the leftist morons obviously support this, as they support everything the MESSiah says...

...sheep.

So says the torturer, murderer & rapist who follows Bush.

 

[Meister]

I really haven't seen any liberals defend this....yet. Maybe there is some common ground here.

 

[loosecannon]

dupe thread.
merged

 

[Meister]

I really haven't seen any liberals defend this....yet. Maybe there is some common ground here.

I stand corrected

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

Thanks guys but I do well enough on my own making my own online ID's and remembering all of my very own passwords.

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HaqD

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

Do me a favor

IGNORE THIS

OIC FREE SPEECH ALERT: Islamic Supremacism on the Net? - Atlas Shrugs

 

[Political Junky]

Government in every orifice. I wonder when they'll start charging for our breathing.

Yes, the right wing is in our bedrooms.

 

[editec]

Good-bye privacy and the ability to post anonymously on the internets.

You don't really imagine that you're posting anonymously now, do you?

I mean seriously?

The internet is the glass house wing of your life.

If you want privacy, step away from your computer and disconnect your internet connection immediately.

I have no idea what this bill was meant to do, but however innocuous its intent might be, it can probably also (and that usually means it also WILL ) be abused.

 

[boedicca]

This is a good place to post a satire on "if the FCC has regulated the Internet":

In January 1993, idle regulators at the FCC belatedly discover the burgeoning world of online services. Led by CompuServe, MCI Mail, AOL, GEnie, Delphi, and Prodigy, these services have been embraced by the computer-owning public. Users "log on" to communicate via "e-mail" and "chat rooms," make online purchases and reservations, and tap information databases. Their services are "walled gardens" that don't allow the users of one service to visit or use another. The FCC declares that because these private networks use the publically regulated telephone system, they fall under the purview of the Communications Act of 1934. The commission announces forthcoming plans to regulate the services in the "public interest, convenience, and necessity."

The FCC ignores the standalone Internet because nobody but academics, scientists, and some government bodies go there. So do the online services, which don't offer Internet access.
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"Regulating the Internet would make as much sense as regulating inter-office mail at Michigan State University," says the FCC chairman. "The online services are the future of cyberspace."

The online companies protest and vow to sue the FCC, but the heavily Democratic Congress moots the suits by passing new legislation giving the commission oversight of the online world.

The FCC immediately determines that the lack of interoperability among the online systems harms consumers and orders that each company submit a technical framework by January 1994 under which all online companies will unify to one shared technology in the near future. The precedent for this are the technical standards that the FCC has been setting for decades for AM and FM, and for television. The online services threaten legal action again, and again Congress passes new legislation authorizing the FCC to do as it wishes. The online companies hustle to submit a technical framework. Microsoft wants in on the game, so it persuades the FCC to extend the framework deadline to July 1995. ....

Read the whole thing:

If the FCC had regulated the Internet: A counterfactual history of cyberspace. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine


Satire, yet it is So Plausible.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

Good-bye privacy and the ability to post anonymously on the internets.

You don't really imagine that you're posting anonymously now, do you?

I mean seriously?

The internet is the glass house wing of your life.

If you want privacy, step away from your computer and disconnect your internet connection immediately.

I have no idea what this bill was meant to do, but however innocuous its intent might be, it can probably also (and that usually means it also WILL ) be abused.

You have no idea what it will mean?
I means mother fuckers coming to your mother house to beat tyhe shit out of you if you say something the government doesn't like
Fight The Smears - Learn the Truth About Barack Obama

 

[boedicca]

And this:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fubrjxYMzeM]See A Health Care Lie? Tell The White House[/ame]


The Obamanoids wanted us to send the lies to [email protected]. Well, that didn't work out too well - so now they want to monitor all Thought and Speech Crimes.

 

[MaggieMae]

Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans - Tech Talk - CBS News

^^

"We are not talking about a national ID card," Locke said at the Stanford event. "We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities."
...
Schmidt stressed today that anonymity and pseudonymity will remain possible on the Internet. "I don't have to get a credential if I don't want to," he said. There's no chance that "a centralized database will emerge," and "we need the private sector to lead the implementation of this," he said.

Fucking hysteria over something intended to protect people. The Internet is not sacred. Will it take a massive breach for people to get that?

 

[MaggieMae]

Good-bye privacy and the ability to post anonymously on the internets.

You don't really imagine that you're posting anonymously now, do you?

I mean seriously?

The internet is the glass house wing of your life.

If you want privacy, step away from your computer and disconnect your internet connection immediately.

I have no idea what this bill was meant to do, but however innocuous its intent might be, it can probably also (and that usually means it also WILL ) be abused.

How so? Do I imagine someone at DHS would be interested in charging something on my online account with Amazon? Uh, no. If they did, I have options for disputing any such charge. Does DHS have the capability RIGHT NOW to monitor what I type on this Message Board? You betcha. But if they can monitor my comments, they can also monitor all the anti-Obama/anti-government stuff posted HERE day in and day out. Yet those folks are still here, and still posting--no black helicopters flying over their basement hideouts.

The federal AND state governments have databases out the wazoo on citizens, and they are rarely "abused," except for the occasional data operator who does it for purely personal reasons. But the agencies themselves generally couldn't give a shit if someone has warts on his ass or that he's a Republican or Democrat.

 

[MaggieMae]

Good-bye privacy and the ability to post anonymously on the internets.

You don't really imagine that you're posting anonymously now, do you?

I mean seriously?

The internet is the glass house wing of your life.

If you want privacy, step away from your computer and disconnect your internet connection immediately.

I have no idea what this bill was meant to do, but however innocuous its intent might be, it can probably also (and that usually means it also WILL ) be abused.

You have no idea what it will mean?
I means mother fuckers coming to your mother house to beat tyhe shit out of you if you say something the government doesn't like
Fight The Smears - Learn the Truth About Barack Obama

I wish they'd never taken down that link. It was a "how to" talk back to Limbaugh, Beck, and all the other haters on talk radio as well as the bloggers that send out viral emails that gullible people sop up as gospel.

 

[MaggieMae]

And this:

See A Health Care Lie? Tell The White House


The Obamanoids wanted us to send the lies to [email protected]. Well, that didn't work out too well - so now they want to monitor all Thought and Speech Crimes.

Your lies eventually reach the thinking public anyway.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Why do people vote for Socialists/Progressives? I really am stumped on that one. The Socialists/Progressives are looking to seize complete control of the Internet. Why do people keep voting against their own best interests? When will people realize that it's all about Freedom & Liberty? The Socialists/Progressives certainly aren't gonna give you more of that. They're only gonna take more of that away from you. So many Government Goose Steppers out there. It really is very sad.

 

[Jackson]

This is just like Obama. Thinking up these projects instead of focusing on jobs and the economy. Last year it was something like 57 speeches on health care and 3 on the economy and Geithner hiding out. Now he's got headlines on Internet ID's and probably how mean the press is at him.

Let's start counting how many speeches he has on the economy, other than "go see my adviser..."

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

STANFORD, Calif. (CBS News) — President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.
It’s “the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government” to centralize efforts toward creating an “identity ecosystem” for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.
That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies.
The announcement came at an event today at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Schmidt spoke.
The Obama administration is currently drafting what it’s calling the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which Locke said will be released by the president in the next few months. (An early version was publicly released last summer.)
“We are not talking about a national ID card,” Locke said at the Stanford event. “We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.”
The Commerce Department will be setting up a national program office to work on this project, Locke said.
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We all need constant supervision.