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US Gov't. Ending Its Hands-Off-the-Internet Stance
Taco Cowboy writes in with a report from The Register about a US policy shift away from keeping hands off the Internet. "According to Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, Obama's top official at the Department of Commerce, the US government's policy of leaving the Internet alone is over. Instead, an 'Internet Policy 3.0' approach will see policy discussions between government agencies, foreign governments, and key Internet constituencies, with those discussions covering issues such as privacy, child protection, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and Internet governance." Here is the presentation in which Strickling enunciated these changes.
Al Gore invented it, remember?
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Obama is here to save us from the internet! Don't worry everyone it's not like the Obama administration has ever said anything about your electronics devices on a network as it relates to privacy...oh wait wasn't there something about cell phones and Americans having “no reasonable expectation of privacy” http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html
I'm sure we'll be fine...hey...why does my system tray have a little icon that looks like a dude in a brownshirt?? Never mind, when I mouse over it it says 'Hope and Change' so false alarm..
Let me balance this out a bit, I don't like the patriot act as well.
"In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash"
I tried to approach this scientifically, so took a poll of those currently in residence, but only one would say "Be like the twenty-second elephant with heated value in space—bark!" even though they appear to be feline. I'm concerned and keeping my towel at the ready.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?