Internet descending into lawlessness

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Censorship Attack (definition)

Action or actions to prevent or inhibit free exercise of First Amendment rights.

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Who Will Kill Net Neutrality?

By Mark Gibbs – Now, call me crazy but it seems to me that any attempt to control what users can and cannot see, even if it is by just by limiting performance, has to be squarely in the territory of censorship and we can pretty much guess how this will play out. First it will be argued that this is just for video and it’s for the good of the network, then certain types of content, both video and Web, will get blocked for political or outright commercial reasons, and then, step by step, our rights will be eroded until we’re all paying way more but only for what the powers-that-be allow us to see. more> http://tinyurl.com/235u6dv

New Bill Gives Obama ‘Kill Switch’ To Shut Down The Internet

By Paul Joseph Watson – The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive.

Lieberman has been pushing for government regulation of the Internet for years under the guise of cybersecurity, but 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. more> http://bwbx.io/x22A

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Does the Internet Need a ‘Kill Switch’?

By Megan Gibson – A proposed bill could effectively give the president an Internet “kill switch.”

Senator Joseph Lieberman has proposed the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PCNAA), a bill that would give the president the power to control or even shut down the Internet in emergency situations.

Other countries are also decrying the bill, fearing the impact on their own security if the U.S. were to shut down essential parts of the Internet. (via CNET) more> http://bwbx.io/mLN2

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• Cybersecurity: Lots of Answers, Now Let’s Ask the Right Questions ←