Our privacy and freedom of information on the internet is under attack. We've been waging a war for at least a decade to keep the internet free from government regulation and keep our activities private. The Bush Administration cracked the wall of our defenses and the Obama Administration is blowing a hole right through it. The war is being fought for Net Neutrality and it looks like we might be loosing.
The Obama Administration wants to know what we are doing on the internet without obtaining a court order. Joe Lieberman has introduced a bill that would give the President an Internet Killswitch that could disconnect our access to the internet "in case of emergency" and set up a National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications that would spy on ISP's and private websites so that it could share that information with the government. Google is also working on a project called Recorded Future with the CIA. Recorded Future will use analytics to monitor internet chatter, find "invisible" connections between people and events and predict future events. Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstei, proposed government infiltration of online groups and websites that talk about "false conspiracy theories." There is also a push for the FCC to reclassify Broadband service as a Telecommunication Service, which would allow the government more control over regulating the internet.
Look out for a series of false flag cyber attacks on the United States being used as an excuse to implement stricter controls over what we can see, hear and talk about online. The internet is really the last media platform that hasn't yet been taken over by regulatory commissions and used to manipulate public opinion. We still have a degree of freedom on the internet and it should stay that way. Most people thought the internet would be safe from censorship because of its very nature, but we know other countries such as China, highly restrict their internet content. Cyber-Security is a national concern, but it is not an excuse for censorship and regulation. Keep that in mind next time you see a story about internet vulnerability or cyber attacks on the United States.
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