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2010-06-17 Home Front: Politix

New Bill Gives Obama Kill Switch' To Shut Down The Internet

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Posted by tipper 2010-06-17 00:28|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Time to move the servers offshore.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-06-17 03:42|| 2010-06-17 03:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Time to move the servers offshore.

809 area code?

Posted by Glenmore 2010-06-17 07:54|| 2010-06-17 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 this new bill goes even further in handing emergency powers over to the feds which could be used to silence free speech under the pretext of a national emergency

And we know all to well how Obummer loves to take advantage of a crisis.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-06-17 09:16|| 2010-06-17 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I can guarantee that if he uses it, he will never have another term and everyone that supported it in congress will be thrown out.

Don't deny people their pr0n, they get pissed. Might even start a shooting war.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-06-17 09:41|| 2010-06-17 09:41|| Front Page Top

#5 What bugs me is that this appears to be another case of "we haven't figured out exactly HOW we would 'shut down the Internet' (mainly because there is no such single entity as 'The Internet') but give us the authority now an we will figure out the particulars later."

There IS NO SUCH THING AS "THE INTERNET". There are only a lot of individual private networks that agree to share data between each other. To shut down the Internet means to start telling private operators who they can talk to.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-06-17 15:51|| 2010-06-17 15:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Iran follows bambi's lead:http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20786:iran-to-create-internet-police-security-chief-says&catid=5:human-rights&Itemid=27

Posted by Flapper Scourge of the Algonquins4926 2010-06-17 16:23|| 2010-06-17 16:23|| Front Page Top

#7 As crosspatch points out, you really can't "shut down the internet"
Note that this article comes from Alex Fucking Jones's batshit crazy "Prison Planet" website, where you can also find heaps of 9-11 troofer lies and the full dope (for dopers) on the census collecting target information for a planned campaign of drone attacks.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-06-17 16:28|| 2010-06-17 16:28|| Front Page Top

#8 What I call "The Internet" at home is AT&T's private network. If I want to send traffic to Yahoo, AT&T has a private data connection to Yahoo's data network and the traffic flows between them. The traffic never flows through an entity called "The Ineternet". Now if I want to do a Google search, the traffic flows through AT&T's direct connection to Google.

At work I have direct peering with MSN, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc. Data from our network to theirs goes directly to them through a privately owned exchange point.

In order to control "The Internet", what is really being said, is that the government can take over private data networks and them them who they can and can not exchange traffic with.

Before any such law is passed, I would want the government to deliver a plan showing exactly how they would intend to shut down "the internet" considering AT&T and Yahoo might peer in 10 different places. There are no "Internet" routers to shut down. The government is going to have to tell private companies like Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, AT&T, Cox Communications, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc. who they can connect to.

There is no such entity as "The Internet".

Posted by crosspatch 2010-06-17 18:25|| 2010-06-17 18:25|| Front Page Top

#9 I was told it was a series of intertubes

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-17 18:39|| 2010-06-17 18:39|| Front Page Top

#10 At the very least, shutting down the internets would be a lot harder than some of Jones's other concerns like, say, sending Delta Force to raid his compound or a census taker to get coordinates for a drone strike.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-06-17 18:59|| 2010-06-17 18:59|| Front Page Top

#11 So it was Delta Force that left the flaming bag of dog poop on Alex's porch. Here I thought it was the CIA.

Posted by ed 2010-06-17 19:07|| 2010-06-17 19:07|| Front Page Top

#12 the Bilderbergers just held a meeting in Europe and dog poop shows up on Alex's doorstep, placed up-and-to-the-left, up-and-to-the-left. Coincidence? I think not

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-17 19:13|| 2010-06-17 19:13|| Front Page Top

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