Cameron: Internet Crackdown Ahead

[Ambrocious]

Kurt Nimmo

Infowars.com

November 1, 2011

On Monday, David Cameron went before an international cyberspace conference in London and said it was “essential to strike a balance between the needs of online security and the right to free expression.”

“We cannot leave cyberspace open to the criminals and the terrorists that threaten our security and our prosperity but at the same time we cannot just go down the heavy-handed route,” he said.

John Kampfner, the chief executive of the Index on Censorship, clarified Cameron’s comments:

“It’s very easy to defend the case of black and white – human rights against dictatorships around the world. But as soon as our own Western-style stability of the state is called into question, well then freedom of expression is expendable. There should be one rule for all including Western governments.”

Cameron’s comments are viewed as a response to China and Russia. Both countries have pushed for tighter regulation of the internet through binding international treaties.

In the United States, the government has used a mostly phantom cyber threat to call for draconian legislation to control the internet. In January, Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) renewed their call for an “internet kill switch” that would allow the president to shut down the internet in response to a national emergency.

The effort came as the Egyptian government shut down the internet in response to demonstrations calling for the removal of president Hosni Mubarak. The move demonstrated that governments have the ability and technical capacity to shut down the internet in response to political crises.

SOURCE: INFOWARS

Simply put, the end of the free internet will come about most likely within a years time. I am very sad that I live in America because I know that it will fall...and fall hard. If we should ever recover one day, I hope that nsanedown still remains because I love this website. Get ready for the worse because the worse is yet to come.

[Atasas]

one(two) words- what a "fu$kin $unt"

wannabe of something taking liberties away from last place as what he has control over! will not be surprised if he would introduce tax on "use of missionary position" as very close to be control of such too! :angry:

[Monkey D. Luffy]

Ambrocious, wasn't it 1 or 2 years ago you said the end was within a few weeks? :P

There are many allies for a free internet. Were not done for a while... hopefully

[Ambrocious]

Yeah, I was given a crazy lead of misinformation about offshore nukes, underwater nukes and it never came to pass. This was around the time when I first officially "woke up" and I was taking a lot of things with "dates" attached very seriously. A crackdown on the openness of the internet is a sure goal for our government and I bet many other governments as well. I certainly hope that the internet only advances more towards freedom rather than away from it. The only problem is that people have found ways to create mass scams and other harmful measures online and they have been able to make mass profits from those scams and otherwise malicious content. Because of this, and in part because the world is pissed off at the banking dictatorship and the internet is a huge bastion of communicating freedom and free speech, controlling the internet and censoring it is always on the table.

Here in America in the old wild west, a lot of laws were not as solid as they are today and protecting towns from criminals was difficult to do because the organization of police departments were still primitive and often lacked the manpower to protect or enforce the laws all the time. Back then, people got away with a lot of stuff that they could never get away with today. Fast forward now to the dawn of the internet. Something new and amazing in the 1980's that connected the world together in a digital way paved the road for major business opportunities...and eventually elements of crime as well. The internet is still, believe it or not, in it's first stage of transition and livelihood. It's in it's wild wild west phase. If directed forward carefully, we CAN wind up with an awesome and better internet in the future but sadly, the framework has been setup firstly for control and secondly for freedom. The big plans for Internet 2 has even MORE control over it's connectivity and plans to bring it forward with the strong probability of it being strictly censored is almost guaranteed. Although it will be a LOT faster, it will also probably be heavily restrictive. How it will behave is also strongly dependent on humanities transition into a world wide Renaissance of new found freedom and knowledge (golden age) or a new dark age with a world banking dictatorship and the ultimate hegemonic New World Order.

The future can be bright or it can be bleak. We decide this.

[FaeGiN]

It is a scary prospect for sure but remember this: There will always be another side, like in the Wild West (Criminals still roam thew plains except they are cities and towns now, but not much has changed!) and in real life... So online, will be the same as it always has..call it The Undernet or whatever but we, and sites like this, will be on it.

There are just too many knowledgeable people who work for the side of the people, not the governments. I mean if you take copy protection as an example...on DVDs, Blurays etc, they make it harder to crack, a cracker makes it easier again and so it goes...round and round, no side gaining too much over the other. then look at P2P, same thing there. OK they took down Napster but all we got then was a hundred Napster clones! A few of them still going too, just not in the news any more. Same thing for software. Have you seen any incarnation of Photoshop that has not been activated/bypassed/cracked? No.

So now they threaten to control the internet. the very nature of the net seem to suggest to me that it is not 'controllable'. To utilise networked PCs from country to country, will also enable people to use them anonymously, for illegal reasons and so on. I can't think of a model where they would be able to stop that from happening. there will ALWAYS be an undernet.

Celebrate! :ph34r: :fun: :ph34r: