Last week, I found an alarming article at the Technology Liberation Front, here, that forewarned the Internet is being threatened by Obama's CyberSecurity Bill: "According to a report by CNET’s Declan McCullagh, a draft bill in the U.S. Senate would grant President Obama “cybersecurity emergency powers” to disconnect and even seize control of private sector computers on the Internet."
BFD? OMG?! What will it be?
Are we going to continue being electronic sheep, letting ourselves be narrowed to nothingness online? What's the hope for free speech if even the Internet is in peril. Obviously hardcopy newspapers are blowing away. Obviously televised news is all under the heel of media giants. What will happen if someone fires up a swarm against something the big "O" considers sacred? Will he then wave his majestic hand and cut off the 'net? What will govern the government's grasp on this? Maybe our current president is of sound mind and only going to use said powers judiciously, but what about the next president, or the one after that?
The more power we align under the executive branch, the more we tilt toward fascism.
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