Internet IDs Are On the Way

[Teresa Heilevang]

Internet IDs Are On the Way..
 
Under the guise of security, the Obama administration is creating an Internet ID for all Americans. The program for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace was announced last week by Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.

The new program will allow Americans to obtain Internet IDs so they may engage in sending emails, doing their online banking, accessing health records, and a number of other transactions.

Locke contends that the program will allow the private sector to facilitate online activities untouched, without the federal government taking full control. He explains:

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http://thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/computers/5890-internet-ids-are-on-the-way 

[fightingquaker13]

I buy bet every Arab state is racing to buy this. Weren't we on the side of people using the net to fight dictatorships about 15 minutes ago?
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

Yes FQ, Heres what I posted on the 15th, (2 days ago )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110215/ap_on_re_us/us_us_diplomacy_internet

]More at link

By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Matthew Lee, Associated Press – 2 hrs 3 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The United States stands with cyber dissidents and democracy activists from the Middle East to China and beyond, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday.

She pledged to expand the Obama administration's efforts to foil Internet repression in autocratic states.

In an impassioned speech on Internet freedom, Clinton said the administration would spend $25 million this year on initiatives designed to protect bloggers and help them get around curbs like the Great Firewall of China, the gagging of social media sites in Iran, Cuba, Syria, Vietnam and Myanmar as well as Egypt's recent unsuccessful attempt to thwart anti-government protests by simply pulling the plug on online communication.

She also said the State Department, which last week launched Twitter feeds in Arabic and Farsi to connect with populations throughout the Arab world and Iran, would broaden the reach of its online mini-appeals for human rights and democracy by creating accounts cater to audiences in China, Russia and India in their native languages.


Mean while they keep pushing "The Fairness doctrine" on the dumb sheep here

[r_w]

Is that the same speech where they hauled off a heckler AS SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT FREE SPEECH???

[tombogan03884]

Probably.   

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[fullautovalmet76]

Is that the same speech where they hauled off a heckler AS SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT FREE SPEECH???

R_W,
The heckler is Ray McGovern, a former top official in the CIA who gave Reagan and Bush 41 their morning briefings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_mcgovern

According to McGovern, he stood with his back to Hillary Clinton and said nothing for several minutes before he was accosted by several security personnel. That's when he started heckling and was taken out.

[tombogan03884]

I don't really think it is technically doable. They can't even stop an autistic 15 year old English kid out of Govt systems.
They may be able to shut down some one like me that knows point and click, but that's about it.
There is a misprint in the Bible, it should read "the GEEK shall inherit the earth" because when it gets to probate some hacker will change the will.
Hell, even NSA has been hacked, there is no system officialdom can institute that won't be gotten around .

[twyacht]

These are the same lefties that screamed Bush(aka Hitler),  was going to have the "SS" brought back with the wiretaps of little old ladies in Walla Walla Washington?

Oh the violations they cried:

Now a Federally controlled Internet Kill Switch and ID?


She pledged to expand the Obama administration's efforts to foil Internet repression in autocratic states.

Watch the other hand folks....

[alfsauve]

Since the "Internet" is a collection of participating networks, how do you define it legally without encompassing every private network in the world....connected together or not.

What about Internet 2?  Are they pioneering this concept over there?

[crusader rabbit]

No Right is so obscure, no freedom so small that these commie-azzholes won't try to control or eliminate it.