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- dotlizard, on 02/03/2008, -8/+321do you ever worry, when digging and commenting on articles like this, that every click earns you more points on some centralized database of subversives? naah. i'm just paranoid.
- Groovemaster, on 02/03/2008, -18/+253The internet is an enemy to the US military-industrial complex and the massive profits they glean from constant global conflict.
An informed population is the thing they fear the most, and they will do everything possible to wrest control of the internet away from the people.
Expect convenient "terrorist cyber attacks" and calls from the corporate media for the government to regulate the internet. - Whoopteedoo, on 02/03/2008, -11/+245Let them try and ***** with the net. They will discover more "enemies" than they ever thought they had or could hope to deal with.
- hdar3415, on 02/03/2008, -13/+195Just wait, the internet will become a part of Homeland Security.
- soloride, on 02/03/2008, -6/+153I bet China could give them some great advice on how to control the Internet. Just say no to "Internet 2"!
- Marijuana, on 02/03/2008, -7/+138I knew the internet was to good to last. The internet threatens the status quo.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -6/+129I wouldn't screw with millions of geeks......
- MonarchWastxD, on 02/03/2008, -9/+110The internet, is basically a communications system to let people talk to each other. So... according to the pentagon, this is bad. This leads to the conclusion that communication is bad, and free speech is bad. So should I stop using the telephone, radio, television, my own mouth etc?
- LongShlong, on 02/03/2008, -2/+78Oh no... ... Not like this... Not like this...
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -8/+74As the 'New World Order" comes to light. China, Russia,U.S.A.. They all give you the same number on the creep meter.
- Brick86, on 02/03/2008, -7/+61The government needs to realize that the internet isn't what it looks like in Hollywood; IE Die Hard. We cannot blow up gas stations from our houses.
- georgetds, on 02/03/2008, -6/+55Yeah, there are a lot of girls out there who say the same thing.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -21/+67NOT IF YOU VOTE RON PAUL IT WON'T
- odintyphoon, on 02/03/2008, -3/+45This is where we got to draw the line, its time too stand up and fight or there will be nothing left to fight with or for. Down whith the internet 2
- madisonskyline, on 02/03/2008, -4/+44Skynet is not self aware.................YET.
- yodaj007, on 02/03/2008, -1/+39ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
- hadak, on 02/03/2008, -2/+37Dugg for Matrix reference.
- SheilaNoya, on 02/03/2008, -1/+35I wonder why people concerned with "National Security" at their top priority are supporting John McCain. He doesn't even know what the internet is and he's admitted that he's never even used a computer and he knows nothing about them. He thinks a "cyber-attack" is some kind of alien space invasion.
- Downwritemad, on 02/03/2008, -3/+36And the internet will mobilize to take down their websites.
- DiggsOnlyJew, on 02/03/2008, -0/+31Yes, that's why the document is stamped "30 October 2003"
- yodaj007, on 02/03/2008, -0/+31I felt a great tremor in the Internet, as though a million geeks cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
- SSUK, on 02/03/2008, -0/+30I'm just waiting to see how Internet 1 ends first. I hear the ending is *****.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -3/+32Resistance is FUTILE.
- lordmetroid, on 02/03/2008, -1/+29Specially when the people thinking about screwing with the geeks are soley dependent on the geek engineers to construct their tools of coercion and war.
- Enjia, on 02/03/2008, -0/+28that's the idea, divide and conquer as it were
- MonarchWastxD, on 02/03/2008, -12/+40The internet, is basically a communications system to let people talk to each other. So... according to the pentagon, this is bad. This leads to the conclusion that communication is bad, and free speech is bad. So should I stop using the telephone, radio, television, my own mouth etc?
- dattaway, on 02/03/2008, -2/+29Worse. The RIAA becomes part of Department of Homeland Security.
- Chairboy, on 02/03/2008, -2/+29We've got one that can see.
- Kyoushu, on 02/03/2008, -4/+30As long as sites like myspace and facebook stay up to keep the american public happy, then there won't be enough of a resistance.
- ecape7, on 02/03/2008, -2/+27The internet is a true platform for free speech ....everybody connected can voice their opinions no matter who they are financially , class , education. this is a great threat to them
- crazyman, on 02/03/2008, -0/+25Wasn't the internet originally developed by the military?
- init100, on 02/03/2008, -0/+25"So should I stop using the telephone, radio, television, my own mouth etc?"
Take out television and radio, since what scares them is two-way communications on equal terms. Radio and television are one-way communication systems where the few communicate to the many. Radio and television does not need to go, because the distributors can be easier to control than the two-way systems. In addition, radio and television are excellent propaganda tools. - Enjia, on 02/03/2008, -0/+23apparently all you need to do is cut three wires with a anchor to cut iran off from the world.
- SemiSarcastic, on 02/03/2008, -4/+27"HTML! DOS Box! DRM! .EXE! BIT Torrent! All your powers combined I'm your Captain Internet!"
Female vocalist: "Captain internet! He's a hero! Gonna take spam and spyware down to zero!
Gonna help out freeware and encryption from bad guys who like to rule the FIBER OPTICS!"
CIA: "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS CAPTAIN INTERNET!!!"
Captain Internet: "The power is yours!" - ThermiteTerrace, on 02/03/2008, -1/+23I guess this makes "2 Girls 1 Cup" the equivalent of a suitcase nuke..
- Look4Truth, on 02/03/2008, -6/+28Let's see, we leave the borders wide open but want to shut down the net.
Tyranny, here we come. - Leomarth, on 02/03/2008, -1/+22Tomorrow, we'll draw a different line, the day after another line, etc. We will do this because ultimately we have this collective cultural fallacy that government is good and we need to listen to it. We will also have a depressive feeling of "It's too big."
And those will be one/two combo that will knock everyone out. - inactive, on 02/03/2008, -1/+22You're 100% correct.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -9/+30The Pentagon views the American citzen who dissents as the enemy. When they say 'enemy' they mean the citizenry. Make NO mistake about this. Our present government is operating apart from the Constitution and believes it is the ALL-POWERFUL state. This is why WE MUST ALL VOTE FOR RON PAUL.
- tastypickles, on 02/03/2008, -0/+21Ask your presidential candidate about their views on net neutrality
- anurkhet, on 02/03/2008, -12/+32Talk about grumpy old men... personally, I think 99.9% of the populace will be too busy using the internet to get the latest Britney Spears info or pr0n to be a danger to anything but the collective IQ of the US.
- danarama, on 02/03/2008, -1/+21what's worse is half the articles on digg are apart of internet psyop prgrams anyway and your comments and diggs ARE being noted. maybe not you personally but the community in general. Not only can they SEE they LEARN.
- Loonacy, on 02/03/2008, -2/+21Speak for yourself.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -5/+23it's more like down with america being the policeman of the world. It is not our job or duty or anything to tell others how to live. We need to protect our own, our borders, and our way of life here. Right now America is being eaten from the inside out by neoconservatives (romney, mccain, bush, wolfowitz, etc)
- MindTrigger, on 02/03/2008, -1/+19I assume everyone recognizes the "war drums" beating for the internet right now. We have heard this propaganda before. It won't be long before our internet in the states is the digital equivalent of a police state.
- vibrokatana, on 02/03/2008, -2/+20The only way to fight large scale security exploits is to limit access to. They can determine with little effort that say bittorrent is a "security breach", throw telnet in there too and break the ability to administer a large number of routers, or ssh and cripple one of the best standards for remote access.
In the end it all becomes about control. They are not really interested in "security", if they were they would help people protect their data. - LlamaKing, on 02/03/2008, -0/+18heh, if only it were that easy to not break any laws in this country....
- Napoleone, on 02/03/2008, -2/+19Heed my warning, though... Net Neutrality is a Trojan Horse.
If this matter gets settled through Congress instead of in the courts, you will see the Internet become regulated, because you will have opened the door for the government to intrude.
You will have all the access you want, to regulated content. Congress has been dying to control the Internet in such a way. You will be providing them with an opening if you pursue this route.
If you're wondering how you could sue tel-cos giants, it would be through a class-action. The complaint would be that you've already payed a fee to access the Internet, and the tel-cos are now limiting that access by charging websites for access to you. That is in direct violation of their contract as an Internet provider. And that is anti-competitive, i.e., against the law.
You wouldn't be alone in your complaint; there would be hundreds of thousands of webmasters right there behind you. It would be hundreds of millions of Internet users.
Consider this, if every Internet user concerned about this issue (just about all), gave $1 dollar to a legal fund, and every webmaster gave $10-$100 (depending on their size), these corporations would back down in the blink of an eye. The battle would be too costly, and the end result would be a matter of certainty. They'd give it up.
Whatever funds are left at the end of it, from the legal fund, can be given to charitable causes.
Just don't involve the government in this fight, cos' their help is going to come at a steep price. - Groovemaster, on 02/03/2008, -0/+16You assume (wrongly) that the war profits get spread around evenly.
Nope... Just the top 3% of the population gets to see the fruits of the giant War Corporation that is the USA.
Tell the fatcats who run the biggest war-profiteering businesses in the US that they're broke. They'll laugh in your ***** face. - StarlessKnight, on 02/03/2008, -0/+16Bamont: In that case, we may as well dispense with the illusion of freedom in America. Less control means more vulnerability, after all. Freedom means people aren't as safe as they could be. Lock down the public and you got a nice, safe, uniform society. It's a bunch of bull and Benjamin Franklin knew it. Freedom is messy, freedom entails risk. At the same time, there is risk and then there's unnecessary risk. It's not an either or game. The government wants to monitor suspicious websites like they do criminal suspects, that's not very hard to do since most websites are open to the public if you can find them. The government wants to control the internet (inc. email--maybe they'd like to open our postal mail, too, before it arrives at our house)? Why? Pro-active "protection?" Because, again, it's not like they can't monitor suspicious activity as-is, they need to go a little more. We have to monitor everyone in case anyone decides to do anything remotely questionable. Guilty until proven innocent, because it's easier that way.
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