Lots of talk about the "internet kill switch" is afoot, just a few common sense things to ponder!!!
1) The names of the people that proposed the bill, Rockefellar, Feinstein, Kerry, Reid, Levin, Bingerman, so we know its bullshit right from the get go!!!
2) The US military (ARPANET) invented the internet. They didn't tell anyone for 20 years, and never tell anyone shit about what they do until they have done it. The fact is, if we ever were in such a situation that would truly warrant the shutting down of the internet in its entirety, they could do whatever they wanted at that point anyway without any legislation. A simple declaration of martial law would accomplish this.
3) The internet is a collection of private networks which cannot (as far as we know) be entirely shut down, in Egypt this was easy to do as there are few ISPs routed through a central network. In this scenario pulling the plug works wonders, however had Egypt the same level of control over the content of the internet (western business interests working with governments) they likely would not have done this. I personally think the severing of internet access was merely a bad cop/ good cop ploy that will have Egyptians lining up to vote in some pro-corporate western backed neo-liberal that will merely hand out food rations with a smiley face on, have his own facebook fan page or some shit, but what do I know!
4) Why would they tell you (us) this anyways? As I have said they never tell you things until years if not decades after the fact, so what is this but a forerunner to a more sinister plot? As if this is something they just thought about after the Israeli made Stuxnet worm infected critical Iranian infrastructure (?) and are now taking more seriously in light of Egypt doing the same thing? Yet Obama has openly condemned this censorship in Egypt? Yet the bill has brought back to the table because of these events??? Mixed messages indeed...
5) Is there a TV kill switch? A phone line kill switch? Nope. One purpose of this bill is to create a seamless knit between the private companies that run the internet and the long since sold out government, virtual fascism. Its not the internet shutting down that people should fear, its this unification of public and private services (under the umbrella of private interests) that will damn us in the long run.
6) Calling it the "internet kill switch" is a media exaggeration, instead it will work itself out to some coordinated protocol to be implemented in times of "national emergencies" with the help of ISPs. Similiar to the fusion centers popping up across the US, basically integrating the private and the sold out public sectors, so when shit does hit the fan everyone plays ball.
7) What most people refer to as the internet is usually a collection of a few websites but not actually the internet, like Facebook, Google, twitter and their favorite blog usually powered by blogger.com. With increasing corporate consolidation of the internet (technopoly) it only becomes EASIER (not harder) to police the web, and that factor has only grown since the Internets onset, and is on track to continue. So most people do not know what the actual genetic nature of the internet is, and simply equate it with the most phenotypical, corporate, mainstream websites (which are really on par with TV in terms of their effectiveness in prompting meaningful social change), outspoken 24/7 anonymous avatards or not, these people (myself included) are foolishly embedded in the Smartgrid (no puns!)! No matter how damning the nature of the material posted on Facebook for instance, it nonetheless was posted on Facebook, (big brothers book!) thereby encouraging that which it criticizes on the most fundamental of levels. I have been well aware of this paradox for years, but press on as no one seems to give a shit LOL!!!
8) There are countless ways to shut off the internet without a centralized kill switch, one way is for the government to simply shut down Google, most people will be so put off to have to use the utterly useless (can't find shit) Bing that they will just say fuck it and go outside!!!
9) Why would they shut off something that enables them to 1) Circulate disinformation 2) Gauge and manipulate public opinion 3) Initiate and track culture trends (by pressing the go viral button) 4) monitor everything we do? They thing is they won't. Those are all the elements that will be preserved, everything that keeps us dumbed down, falsely confident and compliant will be retained, this bill simply makes official the integration of public and private which in the case of a national emergency would simply be commandeered by the government anyways.
10) Its more than likely that this whole internet kill switch business is a forerunner to more draconian legislation's, something to the extent of an "emergency internet" which disseminates pro-establishment info in times of civil unrest. It would be kind of like a mass 'safe mode' where access to bandwidth is rationed to the best bullshitters. The fact is you cannot "shut off the internet" as easy as you can control it.
1) The names of the people that proposed the bill, Rockefellar, Feinstein, Kerry, Reid, Levin, Bingerman, so we know its bullshit right from the get go!!!
2) The US military (ARPANET) invented the internet. They didn't tell anyone for 20 years, and never tell anyone shit about what they do until they have done it. The fact is, if we ever were in such a situation that would truly warrant the shutting down of the internet in its entirety, they could do whatever they wanted at that point anyway without any legislation. A simple declaration of martial law would accomplish this.
3) The internet is a collection of private networks which cannot (as far as we know) be entirely shut down, in Egypt this was easy to do as there are few ISPs routed through a central network. In this scenario pulling the plug works wonders, however had Egypt the same level of control over the content of the internet (western business interests working with governments) they likely would not have done this. I personally think the severing of internet access was merely a bad cop/ good cop ploy that will have Egyptians lining up to vote in some pro-corporate western backed neo-liberal that will merely hand out food rations with a smiley face on, have his own facebook fan page or some shit, but what do I know!
4) Why would they tell you (us) this anyways? As I have said they never tell you things until years if not decades after the fact, so what is this but a forerunner to a more sinister plot? As if this is something they just thought about after the Israeli made Stuxnet worm infected critical Iranian infrastructure (?) and are now taking more seriously in light of Egypt doing the same thing? Yet Obama has openly condemned this censorship in Egypt? Yet the bill has brought back to the table because of these events??? Mixed messages indeed...
5) Is there a TV kill switch? A phone line kill switch? Nope. One purpose of this bill is to create a seamless knit between the private companies that run the internet and the long since sold out government, virtual fascism. Its not the internet shutting down that people should fear, its this unification of public and private services (under the umbrella of private interests) that will damn us in the long run.
6) Calling it the "internet kill switch" is a media exaggeration, instead it will work itself out to some coordinated protocol to be implemented in times of "national emergencies" with the help of ISPs. Similiar to the fusion centers popping up across the US, basically integrating the private and the sold out public sectors, so when shit does hit the fan everyone plays ball.
7) What most people refer to as the internet is usually a collection of a few websites but not actually the internet, like Facebook, Google, twitter and their favorite blog usually powered by blogger.com. With increasing corporate consolidation of the internet (technopoly) it only becomes EASIER (not harder) to police the web, and that factor has only grown since the Internets onset, and is on track to continue. So most people do not know what the actual genetic nature of the internet is, and simply equate it with the most phenotypical, corporate, mainstream websites (which are really on par with TV in terms of their effectiveness in prompting meaningful social change), outspoken 24/7 anonymous avatards or not, these people (myself included) are foolishly embedded in the Smartgrid (no puns!)! No matter how damning the nature of the material posted on Facebook for instance, it nonetheless was posted on Facebook, (big brothers book!) thereby encouraging that which it criticizes on the most fundamental of levels. I have been well aware of this paradox for years, but press on as no one seems to give a shit LOL!!!
8) There are countless ways to shut off the internet without a centralized kill switch, one way is for the government to simply shut down Google, most people will be so put off to have to use the utterly useless (can't find shit) Bing that they will just say fuck it and go outside!!!
9) Why would they shut off something that enables them to 1) Circulate disinformation 2) Gauge and manipulate public opinion 3) Initiate and track culture trends (by pressing the go viral button) 4) monitor everything we do? They thing is they won't. Those are all the elements that will be preserved, everything that keeps us dumbed down, falsely confident and compliant will be retained, this bill simply makes official the integration of public and private which in the case of a national emergency would simply be commandeered by the government anyways.
10) Its more than likely that this whole internet kill switch business is a forerunner to more draconian legislation's, something to the extent of an "emergency internet" which disseminates pro-establishment info in times of civil unrest. It would be kind of like a mass 'safe mode' where access to bandwidth is rationed to the best bullshitters. The fact is you cannot "shut off the internet" as easy as you can control it.
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