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US government report recommends blocking popular websites during pandemic flu outbreak
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| 10-29-09
| Mike Adams
Posted on 10/29/2009 9:34:35 PM PDT by mlizzy
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To: mlizzy; June K.
The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth for investors, day traders and securities clearing house operations. The concern is that a pandemic would cause too many people to stay at home and download YouTube videos and porn, hogging all the internet bandwidth and blocking throughput for investment activities, thereby causing a stock market meltdown. Oh, nonsense! There was a time, not too long ago, when the Internet was somewhat 'fragile', that even having a text forum chat with a famous celebrity was a big deal and would lock out many users due to limited bandwidth. Since then its bandwidth backbone has grown in leaps and bounds and can now support high bandwidth content such as video and live streaming.
And besides, from a cultural perspective, isn't that exactly what the policy wonks in DC have always wanted? For us all to be opiated by mindless entertainment while they chip away at our God given freedoms?
What a bunch of bunk!
-- MM
To: OneWingedShark
In this case they're creating a crisis "strawman" and exploiting it before it happens.
Next they'll need our guns to keep us safe during an outbreak.
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posted on
10/29/2009 10:15:02 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Obama can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; rocco55; thouworm; rxsid; GOPJ; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; ...
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posted on
10/29/2009 10:18:13 PM PDT
by
LucyT
To: mlizzy; All
This is not one bit surprising. Any excuse to stop our free speech. I have a shortwave radio in case they ban talk radio, too.
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posted on
10/29/2009 10:20:47 PM PDT
by
Sun
(Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
Thanks for the heads up Kim!
The list, ping
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posted on
10/29/2009 10:21:13 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: mlizzy
HOw bad could the flu be if they can sit at home and watch porn? They could do that at the office like they always do!
To: mlizzy
Bump for later Friday reading
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posted on
10/29/2009 10:22:41 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: HiTech RedNeck
This means that for three hours each day during Rush’s show, there will be too much band width being used, so they will cut his show off...
To: HiTech RedNeck
I have been sick for two days and I have curtailed my bandwithy thingy.
Been sleeping and didn’t feel like being online much.
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posted on
10/29/2009 10:31:34 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
It sounds like they’re scared to death of non sick people freaking out and communicating with each other while the sick ones are incapacitated. Do they think communication on the net would be worse than during and after 9/11 or what?
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posted on
10/29/2009 10:34:54 PM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
To: Vendome
That’s what I’m saying, this isn’t directed toward those who are sick..it’s preventing the healthy from communicating. (But why?)
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posted on
10/29/2009 10:38:34 PM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
To: mlizzy
If they shut down YouTube videos and porn wouldn't that start the real pandemic?
Seriously now, I think all this and the man made swine flu is just a betta test. One day, when they fix all the glitches, they'll hit us with everything all at once.
To: 1_Rain_Drop
I had a little bit of pork for dinner in celebration.
Hopefully, feel better in the morning and will have a BLT, even though I don’t really eat swine. I am doing so in protest and in hopes that it will cure me.
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posted on
10/29/2009 10:55:10 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Thats what Im saying, this isnt directed toward those who are sick..its preventing the healthy from communicating. (But why?)
Because they intend to declare martial law during a pandemic? I don't know, that's the only thing I could think off.
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posted on
10/29/2009 11:03:58 PM PDT
by
Ticonderoga34
(Free Obama's Birth Certificate!)
To: Ticonderoga34
I hope not... I just can’t believe internet traffic would be worse than 9/11.
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posted on
10/29/2009 11:07:56 PM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
To: mlizzy
anyone that is stoopid enough to rely on the internet for a critical function of their business is a fool
build you own private network if its that important
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posted on
10/29/2009 11:11:44 PM PDT
by
sloop
(pfc in the quiet civil war)
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ...
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posted on
10/29/2009 11:40:17 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
To: LucyT
Indicates fear and desperation, IMO. Create an emergency and block communication. Must be frustrating that the ‘swine flu’ won’t co-operate. What’s next? A ‘terrorist’ attack maybe?
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posted on
10/29/2009 11:43:18 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum)
To: Vendome
I have been sick for two days and I have curtailed my bandwithy thingy. I had it a couple of weeks ago...I was hardly on the computer at all for a few days. I was too puny, sleepy, achy and prone to chills to want to sit at the keyboard.
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posted on
10/29/2009 11:46:20 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
To: SwedeBoy2
Well, the rationale they’re using is for the entirety of the world’s financial markets, so basically anything produced.
But it’s a straw man on top of a straw man. All that goes on on separate networks. I’m a US treasury trader, and we have a completely separate fiber connection to the exchange.
So even if you could flood the internet, it wouldn’t affect the exchanges. I might not be able to log on to my Ameritrade (Scottrade, etc) account from my home internet connection to sell Google or whatever, but the vast majority of trading doesn’t touch the internet.
And of course, the image of this incredibly fragile and crowded internet is a joke. Iphones might lag if everyone jumped on the 3G cell networks at once, but the communications companies laid so much fiber from the 90s up until now that we’re not going to run out of capacity because people are home sick.
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posted on
10/29/2009 11:53:38 PM PDT
by
BobbyT
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