We don't know what the specifics are, but this is probably necessary.
The internet in important infrastructure to the commerce of the nation. It is how we buy and sell stock, interact with our bank, buy merchandise, interact with govt. A cyber attack on the internet would be no different than bombing important bridges on the interstate highway system to halt movement of goods in our economy.
The US used cyber warfare in the Iraq war against Iraq. US banks have been hacked by the Russian mafia. Google was attacked by the Chinese govt., Chinese dissidents and all of their friends were outed plus the emails read.
Do you believe this initiative is unnecessary?
1. Yes...
this is a naked attempt at control of the dissemination of information.
Did you find yourself saying, " gee, I wish the government would control the internet..."?
2. "Net neutrality rules must be implemented while the government should quintuple federal funding for public and community broadcasting, argued Ben Scott, the State Departments recently appointed policy adviser for innovation.
Scott was writing last year in a radical magazine in an article co-authored by Robert W. McChesney (left), an avowed Marxist activist who has called for the dismantlement, brick-by-brick, of the U.S. capitalist system, with America being rebuilt as a socialist society. McChesney is the founder of the George Soros-funded Free Press, which petitions for more government control of the Internet and news media.Scott and McChesney also recommended the U.S. impose ownership limits on local radio, TV, and cable channels while pushing for more control of the media by the FCC.
The duo were writing in the January/February 2009 edition of Tikkun Magazine, run by avowed Marxist Michael Lerner. Lerner has been accused of using the magazine to justify Palestinian terror and has written articles in which he suggested the 9/11 attacks were a response to U.S. policies.
Whatever issue tops your list of priorities, real progress will be impossible unless we first change our media system, wrote Scott and McChesney. Currently, access to communications and control over media content are vested in the hands of corporate titans.
Net neutrality refers to government interference to propose a principle for users access to networks participating in the Internet.
This past May, Scott was named a policy adviser for innovation at the State Department. He previously served as director of McChesneys Free Press.
Free Press has ties to other members of the Obama administration. "
Klein: Look who wants to quintuple funding for government media. State adviser, Marxist also want more FCC control of airwaves « RBO
3. Are you certain you are willing to give up any of your of you access to information to government?
I note the word 'CONTROL' being used freely...