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“Cyber tsar may turn screws on Internet freedom”

Published: 28 July, 2009, 19:39
Edited: 31 January, 2010, 12:44

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A “Cyber Tsar” is good thing for providing security for US governmental websites, but substantial oversight on Internet in his hands may lead to increased government surveillance, says cyber crime expert Berin Szoka.

President Barack Obama is set to announce the appointee for a new White House job, a role which is expected to include broad authority on protecting governmental and private computer networks.

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feal to reafect January 31, 2010, 01:15
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Freedom comes with a scene that is ignored. And it is responsibility towards our fellow man. for to be an example that no one can break a risk is to be taken ... no one tries to be perfect because they become the flaws that they know the flaws of man .,. no one stays good for they know too much bad. only one man can be true if he stands alone. sick is what the world is and no one tries to heal it, greed slows down time and when we wake up everything around us is destroyed. the choice of freedom is made to leave the bad, but if they know about the bad past wont that restrict them from ever feeling free .,. freedom comes with doing right above all bad but be ware for to know the right thing to do it must be discussed to the party you are about to unleash on. IF I GAVE YOU AN EGG AND YOU DIDN'T WANT ONE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH IT ? i know your not going to kiss it.

Leif July 29, 2009, 17:16
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Now this is history in the making, what does government officials protection from? Usama Bin Laden worms, or Trojans? Not likely, but with Internet comes more freedom then we could ever hope for, now this freedom is censored by the governments of the world, this is not a US phenomenon, all over Europe the same at work places. This is nothing but utterly bullshit, what is so dangerous that US government officials got to have a Internet Tsar? Well my theory is that unbiased information on their very own employees crimes to freedom of speech is visual on the Internet and that is what they are to be protected from. Thought police? Oh yeah it is already here. Now if someone has not seen the movie Equilibrium with Christian Bale it is time to check it out. The latest thing that thought police interfered in was the Georgian crisis last year. Europeans and US media pointed their fingers almost instantaneous at Russia being the big bad wolf, while some of us that follow the news streams and got access to global media could calculate whom was to be blame within the first five minutes of this crisis. The Globalists the so called Geostrategic junta surrounding US presidents such as Mr. Zbigniew Brzeziński and other top officials pointing at Russia being the bad boy in the drama when it were Georgian Grad batteries bombarding Georgian civilians without any restraints. The many hundreds killed and wounded were looked past, it were more important for the world to unilaterally sway support for Georgian president and his beloved capitol city. If I had been one of those that eat everything that is served, I for sure would had thought Russia were to be blamed. I love Internet and I love the freedom of it as when Presidents such as Mr. Change start to cut down access to alternative news broadcasters well then I lift an eyebrow and the word that left my mouth is then Fascism! Expose the globalists protect the constitution and freedom of speech do not brush this under the carpet.