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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.
No. He meant like when DARPA grew internationally, assuring neutrality to everyone.
Or, abstaining from voting can also be expressions of apathy or being completely discouraged due to the corruption that goes on, and on, and on, and on in political circles no matter which party is in power.
Hell, right now we have a President and ruling political party that is willing to shove something down the throats of American citizens that 2/3's of us oppose. Our forefathers, who revolted over being governed without representation, must be rolling over in their graves at this bastardization of the principles for which they fought, sacrificed their personal fortunes, and died.
BTW, the word you're looking for when you made up "abstination" is abstention: the act or practice of abstaining.
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
In the US the poor 20% of the population have nothing.
This is utter tripe. It is *not* true.
I've *been a part* of that 20% for a good while, so I know. You always get care. You are never refused care. You get care on a par with most everyone else. I've always had medications and treatments provided. I've never been unable to have any testing done such as X-ray, CT, MRI, blood-work, biopsies, etc.
Yes, they'll send you a bill in the mail. If you're unable to pay, they continue to send bills for a while, then they stop. You are not charged with any crime even if your care has amassed hundreds of thousands in charges. There is Medicare, Medicaid, and a host of other programs...some federal, some state, some NGO, some faith-based, some even provided by those *evil* pharma companies that stand ready to act as safety nets.
It is pure unadulterated political FUD so obviously untrue that even MS would be too ashamed to spread it.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
You obviously didn't read TFA. Internet 2.0 (commercialization) ended in 2009. We're now in Internet 3.0 (government control).
Put identity in the browser.
Mexicans who's land was invaded and taken
That's hilariously ironic --- you do realise, don't you, that the Spanish conquered and colonised Latin America in much the same way as other Western Europeans did North America? You think Spanish Mexicans were always 'just there'? They did their share of killing the indigenous populations too - why do you single out the US? You seem to have an agenda.
Africans (kidnapping and slavery)
And yet America fought a civil war partly over slavery, emancipating the African Americans, fought to end the Jim Crow era, and ultimately African Americans now enjoy more liberty than the majority of their 'counterparts' living under despotic murderous dictators in various African countries.
Women and their rights, and the list goes on?
What!? The Western world has been BY FAR the world's leaders in the women's rights movements --- most other cultures are only now slowly starting to "catch up". You think the Middle East leads in women's rights? You think China leads in women's rights? You think Africa leads in women's rights? They are all FAR behind the US, my friend!
"So this is wrong but the wire taps from the Bush era are okay?"
Criticism of the administration currently in power is not a vindication of the actions of previous policy makers.
That said, if President Obama and his colleagues had any more concern for our pivacy than did the Bush administration, why isn't he exposing and ending all of the Bush era domestic espionage programs? Why isn't he publicly calling for the attorney general and ministry of justice to investigate and prosecute all of the illegal activities perpetrated by Bush administration officials?
Nothing has "changed" this is just another step in the very same direction that we were moving in under Bush.
In Louisville, KY at least Jewish and University Of Louisville won't let you visit one of their doctors without insurance. Except in an emergency, of course, and then you're going to be given the absolute minimum care they can get away with.
Didn't you get the memo? It's because obama said so. BTW you're a racist, too.
I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.
You haven't studied US history very much. A lot of farmers, people living on the frontier, tradesmen, etc... never got involved in politics. However, when push came to shove they acted on what they believed in and joined the revolution. They stood up for what they believed in enough to risk their lives, they just weren't political animals. Most historians say voting rates in colonial America were low, yet the majority of the population was for independence and enough people volunteered for military service to defeat the then-greatest military on earth.
Your "cannon fodder" remark is simply stupid. The vast majority of the US rebel army was made up of volunteers. The central US government didn't even have the power of conscription, iow's draft people into the army, until the Civil War, about 100 years later.
Your reply to me pretty much tells me you believe in nothing but cynicism where your fellow man is concerned....
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
In the US the poor 20% of the population have nothing.
This is utter tripe. It is *not* true.
I've *been a part* of that 20% for a good while, so I know. You always get care. You are never refused care. You get care on a par with most everyone else. I've always had medications and treatments provided. I've never been unable to have any testing done such as X-ray, CT, MRI, blood-work, biopsies, etc.
You get a lower standard of care. I also, was part of that lower 20%. Most of the time, they will find the first "easy" diagnosis and claim that is what it is.
Mod parent up. The vast majority of pro-communist / socialist rhetoric that I here comes from entitled white American kids who have no fucking clue what it is like to live in one of these states. My brother in law is from Germany (far from a facist, communist state) and is thankful every day that he was able to come to this country.
Yes, you get might get care, but just try buying a house after those letters get not dealt with...
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Sorry but I need to throw in my two cents: as a college student I started to miscarry my baby, so I showed up at the local hospital in Berkeley. I wasn't even allowed in to see a doctor to be stabilized or sent by ambulance to the county hospital in Oakland. They literally couldn't hurry me off their property fast enough. I had to have someone drive me the half hour to Highland. It was shocking and awful.