Net
Control – An Orwellian Big Brother Power Grab?
Or Affirmation of Constitutional Freedoms?
PREFACE NOTE: This is the defining issue of global freedom folks. Without Net freedoms that honors the Bill of Rights under the Constitution, we will see the worldwide web of truth and freedom morph into an Orwellian Big Brother nightmare of surveillance and totalitarian mind control.
Many are those who haven’t been able to see the needed solution to Net freedoms because they haven’t seen the problem. They’ve assumed that the Internet will be free and open, representing our core freedoms under the Constitution. They assume that our government reps will protect Internet freedoms that uphold the Constitution’s pure intent to champion freedom and opportunity for the whole world through the Internet.
Mark my words. Either Net neutrality is preserved with a free and open Internet or you will see the web of conscience sabotaged by self-serving interests of giant corporate conglomerates with more allegiance to their monopolies on power-to-profit than their allegiance to the Constitution and the purpose for which government of, by and for the people was created.
Net Media. The core of all our Constitutional freedoms.
- Christopher
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Europe
Moves To Kill The Internet
New EU
rules would prevent uploading video without a license
Steve
Watson / Infowars.net | October 17 2006
The latest move to kill off
online freedom and the spread of information comes in the form of proposed EU
legislation that would prevent users from uploading any form of video, whether
that be a hard hitting political documentary film or your friends goofing around
with diet coke and Mentos.
A proposed EU directive could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet,
hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube., reports the London
Times. This would mean that websites and mobile phone services that feature
video images would have to conform to standards laid down in Brussels.
Personal websites would
have to be licensed as a “television-like service”. Once again the reasoning
behind such legislation is said to be in order to set minimum standards on areas
such as hate speech and the protection of children.
In reality this directive would do nothing to protect children or prevent hate
speech - unless you judge protecting children to be denying them access to
anything that is not government regulated or you assume hate speech to be the
criticism of government actions and policy.
Whilst it may not seem a great loss to some people that there would be no more
home videos of "Girls snogging for fun" or "Bad Bus Driver", under such rules it
would also be illegal throughout the entirety of Europe to upload and spread
informative documentary films such as Alex Jones'
Terror Storm,
important activist tools which seek to expose the fraud behind the war on
terror.
It is safe to say that
without the freedom of the internet grass roots activism could never evolve into
huge ideologies such as the 9/11 truth movement, which has exploded into one of
the most powerful and important movements of modern times thanks to the ease
with which the information can be disseminated through the web.
We have previously highlighted the trouble we have had with censorship from
Google Video who reset viewing totals for Terror Storm from hundreds of
thousands of views on several different video versions back down to zero for
each one. This seemingly stalled the viral spread of the film for a while.
However, the proposed EU
legislation dwarfs any Google censorship as it would kill off Google Video/You
Tube as a project before it had even started.
The latest proposed
directive is another in a long line of draconian legislative procedures that
seek to totally centralize and regulate the spread of information and ideas.
Anyone in Europe can already be arrested and possibly extradited under the
European arrest warrant, which passed into law in 2002. This supercedes national
law and means that anyone could be arrested for expressing an opinion deemed to
be illegal in another EU country.
The BBC reported that under such laws people who distribute stories about
fictional children's hero Biggles or the Old Testament could be criminalized
under the guise of anti-racism legislation.
Such laws in turn require implementation and upholding, therefore increasing the
need for broad data retention, which had previously come up against opposition
as part of anti-terror legislation, but has not faced as much backlash under
anti-racist or child protection laws.
This means surveillance
on a massive and coordinated centralized scale.
The EU data retention bill,
passed in February after much controversy and with implementation tabled for
late 2007, obliges telephone operators and internet service providers to store
information on who called who and who emailed who for at least six months. Under
this law, investigators in any EU country, and most bizarrely even in the US,
can access EU citizens' data on phone calls, sms', emails and instant messaging
services.
Such EU directives mirror US proposals for data retention, the reasoning for
which as either a standalone measure or as an amendment to a broad
telecommunications bill, is that it is designed to protect children.
This may mean that any normal website or blog would have to fall into line with
such new rules and
suddenly total web regulation would become a reality.
We are being led to believe that a vast army of maniac pedophiles are on the
loose and we must do away with all forms of privacy in order to stop them. This
is akin to saying that blanket cctv prevents crime. As if to say
"if we film everyone all the
time, even innocent people, then no one will ever commit any crimes."
Increasingly we are seeing this in every aspect of our lives.
Recording, tracking and
retaining our data in the name of keeping us all safe. Everyone is now treated
as guilty until proven innocent.
The attack on internet
freedom is forging ahead every day. Monday saw Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff declare the internet as a "terror training camp" that attracts
Disaffected people. His solution is "intelligence fusion centers," staffed by
Homeland Security personnel which will go into operation next year.
The US government is also funding research into social networking sites and how
to gather and store personal data published on them, according to the New
Scientist magazine.
"At the same time, US
lawmakers are attempting to force the social networking sites themselves to
control the amount and kind of information that people, particularly children,
can put on the sites."
Both American and European moves mimic stories we hear every week out of State
Controlled Communist China, where the internet is strictly regulated and
virtually exists as its own entity away from the rest of the web.
We have also previously
exposed how moves are afoot to clamp down on internet neutrality and even to
designate a new form of the internet known as Internet 2.
This would be a faster, more streamlined elite equivalent of the internet
available to users who were willing to pay more for a much improved service.
Providers may only allow streaming audio and video on your websites if you were
eligible for Internet 2.
Of course, Internet 2 would be greatly regulated and only
"appropriate content"
(politically correct) would be accepted by an FCC or government bureau.
Everything else would be relegated to the "slow lane" internet, the junkyard as
it were.
The Internet is freedom's best friend and the bane of control freaks. Its eradication is one of the short term goals of those that seek to centralize power and subjugate their populations under a surveillance panopticon prison, whether that be in Communist China, Neoconservative America or the Neofascist EU.
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