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Posted on 02/15/2010 9:08:52 PM PST by 444Flyer
The American blogosphere is going increasingly “viral” about a proposal advanced at the recent meeting of the Davos Economic Forum by Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, that an equivalent of a “driver’s licence” should be introduced for access to the web. This totalitarian call has been backed by articles and blogs in Time magazine and the New York Times.
As bloggers have not been slow to point out, the system being proposed is very similar to one that the government of Red China reluctantly abandoned as too repressive. It was inevitable that, sooner or later, the usual unholy alliance of government totalitarians and big business would attempt to end the democratic free-for-all that is the blogosphere. The United Nations is showing similar interest in moving to eliminate free speech.
The recent uprising in the blogosphere that resulted in the overturning of the Global Warming consensus can only have focused our rulers’ attention more acutely on this infuriating challenge to their totalitarian control. “What will go next?” they must be asking themselves. Unrestricted immigration? Punitive taxation? Even the European Union? With the helots exploiting a loophole in the PC Curtain that has otherwise been so remorselessly drawn down over freedom of expression, the internet represents a dangerously subversive force, fulfilling the role in the West that was formerly performed by samizdat publications inside the Soviet Union.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
There is perhaps no speech more important to free speech then anonymous speech. As anonymous speech is the only speech completely free from potential reprisals.
Ever wonder what all those new updates from Microsoft really are? I don’t trust them at all. I disregard most updates and deleted most of them that were done after November 2008. Our computer tech does all Dell in our area and he said 95% of those updates are BS and you don’t need them. I don’t know if he’s right but I never have computer issues, never had a virus, spyware free due to Spyware Doctor running constantly but I know plenty of people that let it install updates automatically that have had major issues with their computers.
The only reason any-man should be held responsible for what he or she says is if some other man or woman wishes to make it a crime to say something. The doors of tyranny are not more transparent then in the suppression of free thought and speech.
It was during the last Great Depression that radio faced FCC control.
It is NOT a coincidence that in this coming Depression, more control of free speech will be sought.
Can’t have the people knowing too much, can we?
Already want to know every website everyone goes to. Already want to track every cellphone.
Think about it.
NYSlimes= Pravda. And just about as relevant, too.
And then we just proxy through another country.
Anonymous commentary has a long and honorable history in America. Plus our libel laws are weaker that than the UK and by extension Europe. Is that correct?
They were drooling then; imagining success per their feeding their desire/need to to ursurp, intrude; violate and control.
corr: typo: ursurp: reads better as ‘usurp’/lol. ..
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Political elitists fear the power of instant free speech on the internet. The internet can often within hours find the truth behind almost any political propaganda.
Too many miilions of voters that are getting too smart is too dangerous for those that thrive on being in control.
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Think about it.”
President Big Bro is getting all his little duckies in a row.
4/27/09
“Obama names Schmidt, Mundie as advisors”
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/04/27/obama-names-schmidt-mundie-advisors
“... But those who fear snooping may not be happy. They will likely distrust the head of Google as counselor to the President on information gathering about individuals. They may also note that Mundie was a key player in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing program, which some critics saw as an attempt by Microsoft to control the content on their computers, specifically to block the playing of downloaded music and videos.
But critics looking for a conflict need only point to his employer's role in Washington: “in any country the government is usually the biggest customer,” Mundie told the Seattle Times in March, “and that's true for Microsoft.”
April 28, 2009
“Obama enlists Microsoft, Google execs to help in push to boost R&D spending”
“...., two of the people who will help him shape the government's science and technology policies are top executives from Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc.
Obama Monday appointed Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. PCAST is the president's top scientific advisory body, and its 20 members include executives and academics with a wide range of business and scientific expertise...”
Will the MSM require a state license too? How about requiring the state MSM be subject to the rules of criminal procedure?
The NYC journalist hub wants to be able to attack the bloggers and websites.
Remember what they did to joe the plumber.
“And then we just proxy through another country.”
If I fine your ISP $10,000 per day per unlicenced user, they will find a way to stop you or turn you in.
The internet is not like the wind or sunlight, it comes from the machines people make and the people who pay for them.
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