America to emulate China in internet censorship?
We read:
"Under Senator Joe Lieberman’s 197-page Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, the United States would formally mimic China’s “great firewall” of web censorship.
When Lieberman himself attempted to debunk claims that the bill provides Obama, and any following President for that matter, with a figurative ‘kill switch’ to disable certain parts of the Internet, he explained that the government was merely seeking to emulate powers over the Internet already enjoyed by the Communist Chinese.
Firstly, despite Lieberman’s spin, the text of the bill clearly gives Obama the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight.
Secondly, and even more alarmingly, Lieberman’s acknowledgement that the United States is seeking to emulate China’s policies on Internet control confirm that the entire cybersecurity agenda is primarily concerned with silencing political opposition to the state, since this factor completely dominates the Chinese model which Lieberman openly invokes as the ultimate goal of cybersecurity.
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7 comments:
I had better stop trolling here. Don't want to be included in this group when Obama rounds up you right wing wackaloons and sends you all to "re-education" camps in the Mojave desert.
Too late 4:23, I already told them your name and gave them your address ...
marxist at heart and in practice, OhBummer
Joe Lieberman does have days when he actually makes sense, but apparently this was not one of them. Perhaps he's hanging out with his pal John McLoser too much which is causing these lapses in rational thought.
au contraire. He made perfect sense.
In fact it was possibly the first time in years he actually let the truth slip about his (and the left's in general) agenda.
It was of course unintentional (as all truth is when uttered by a leftist) but that doesn't mean he didn't make sense (though he probably thought himself an idiot for stating it afterwards once he noticed what he'd done).
Yes, we musn't forget that Joe is a liberal Demoncrat, no matter which hat he chooses to wear that day.
Following Lieberman's logic, if China has forced abortions, we must have them as well.
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