Pentagon: The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy "weapons system"

Go to the DOD IG Reading Room and read H05L95546042 about how the Rumsfeld era works against the military retirees...Armed Force Retirement Home COO abused his authority against an Air Force LtCol, yet was never punished--she, however, was forced to accept involuntary reassignment and retire. She was a nurse on Air Force One for Clinton and BUSH41.

I think the I.O.R. isn't being completely honest. What they really want to say is 'The American people need to be dealt with as if they were an enemy "weapons system"'.

That's insane. The Internet isn't going anywhere.

It seems like more and more each day the United States Government and its business partners are at war with its people. There seems to be less "breathing room" so to speak as its people are smothered in the will of the large group of anti-progressive old timers. I find it very insulting. I find this an extreme lack of disrespect that a large organization, with contempt for its people is attempting.

If they mean that in a way that we have to protect from hackers from around the world, then yes.
I am sure there is a lot more hackers now trying to hack into american security system then anywhere else... well we are hated everywhere so... not a suprise there.

But I do hope they dont start internet blockage like they do in China, if they do start might as well move there

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! I'll bail out!
how competitive a moneymaker is the internet?
has anyone seen the new navy campaign??
working to unman the front line!

It's just the way they word things.
The internet is the most powerful tool we've ever had in this world- why is so hard to think of it being used in a bad way. It is majorly used in a bad way every milisecond we're on here. It can be dangerous.

Will this ever happen? Yes it will!

Internet: The Pentagon needs to be treated as if they were paranoid schitzophenic.

seems to me like Pentagon officials fear an educated society...

if knowledge is power than the internet can be seen as a threat or "weapons system"...

i wonder if the same about was thought of tv and radio in the past?

There's no doubt there's hundreds if not thousands more paranoid notions to clip civil liberties and human rights just like this one out there that have been thought up by shady jobbing operatives which you probably won't ever hear about until they are implemented, but before you get too riled up, has anyone registered that the article in question was written in 2003 and is freely available to any one looking to dig it up?

how can I get an avatar attached to my smoke signals?

What's next? Book burnings in the town square?

The internet, "with the potential for free speech"

Who's this accusing China of censorship now? Pot, kettle, black..?

US government is getting about as paranoid as any 'rogue state' or dictatorial/autocratic regime. Funny that.

If telco can not take it from you the government will.

We can look at it like this. While you and i go to our jobs we make light of our freedoms. Simple people, paying our bills, paying our debt, working hard at our jobs.

Maybe your working behind a desk, or, or your a fine craftsman, or even a chemical engineer. There is a goal to our plans.

The folks behind OZ control people. That is what they do , and fantastic work they have done. Until a few "Nerd Techs" discovering the internet, and allowing us the opportunity to mass communicate and discover a chink in their armor, the truth!

My vote is we enjoy our freedoms and fight for what we have, before we lose everything.

the cia and pentagon already took down the attached link because they don't want the public to know the truth. I guess thats why my 'Vote Ron Paul' background on myspace was gone without me changing it.

May the free flow of information on the Internet never stop, and may it be the foundations of a Revolution for all of humanity.

Anybody else having trouble getting to the article in the link?

Learn how to make simple crystal radios.

Axis of evil = access to evil, right? I suppose that we should be more in contact with people of other countries now, so they will know our true beliefs before all they hear is propaganda fed to them by the corporate hierarchy which pits us all against each other.

LOL... what more could you say

I personally plan to deal with the coming death of the internet by training vast numbers of super-intelligent carrier pigeons who will form the backbone of future server networks. They'll shuttle tiny scraps of tree bark--whittled by hand, of course-- back and forth across the globe, each with a 'one' or 'zero' scrawled on the back.

If we're going to move backwards, it might as well be by leaps and bounds...

Encryption FTW.

The more we let the three branches of Federal government diminish our rights as human beings the higher the probability of internet censorship. Years from now some of us will look back to the Golden Years of the Internet...wishing for what it could have become.

I wouldn't doubt it for a second.

After COINTELPRO anything is possible.

What? That's stupid, I don't believe this article for one minute.

This isn't news, it's just a conspiracy theory. Get out of here with that garbarge.

If the soldiers at the Pentagon are sworn to protect the Constitution, and foremost in that the freedom of speech, then what the hell is really going on?

I see the internet as the world's last best hope for peace and communication. Someone should remind the Pentagon the goal is not war, the goal is prosperity.

you can see the imminent censorship and subsequent death of the internet coming from miles away. the gov't seeks more control over what people think and the internet is enemy #1 when it comes to that.

This is going to be ugly if it happens. But then again... there are a lot of sheep in this country.

Maybe they should change the default settings on their routers, and stop buying crucial security hardware from China.

Ironic that internet's origins began with the military. Now, it's to be considered 'the enemy'. Just yet another example of the Pentagon's reckless theorizing of what the problem is. More ineffective thinking like this only serves to galvanize the very public that the are supposedly sworn to protect against them even more. Sad, really...

The Pentagon will shortly announce that every single person who uses the internet is an enemy of the USA.
I am going over to visit my grandmother tonight, she is a silver surfer so I must prepare her to the fact that the CIA will shortly be coming over and she is more than likeley to be waterboarded.

The Pentagon has always been full of shit. The DoD is far from a protector of the Republic.

They treat our soldiers like mercenaries and run their agenda with no consideration for the country.

So it doesn't surprise me that they seek to supplant the greatest force for the first amendment the country has ever seen. They rely on an obedient press and no dissenting opinions to run their atrocious business.

It's interesting because it's about our country and our government. An informed citizenry can protect democracy, but an ignorant mass will lose all faith.

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We wont bomb the internet, there isnt any oil in it.

"Is the government going to bomb the internet now? "

No. Too many tubes. However...

"The development of "Internet 2" is also designed to create an online caste system whereby the old Internet hubs would be allowed to break down and die, forcing people to use the new taxable, censored and regulated world wide web."

The key here is fees. When you have to start paying to visit your favorite dissenting websites, you know the game is over.

They will probably start regulating it even more to 'prevent terrorism' or 'catch criminals' and everyone will buy into all of it.

Is the government going to bomb the internet now?

"It is now commonly understood that information and other new technologies... are creating a dynamic that may threaten America's ability to exercise its dominant military power."

This is very frightening. An aggressive move towards information control which could end in the criminalization of truth. These are the footsteps of Totalitarianism. Dominance breads apathy and foments a perspective of arrogance. Fear and destruction media "pornography" will lead the way to the loss of freedom and truth. These are the attempts to condition this free nation into "slavery".

More like 1984.

I wonder who our 2 minute hate would be against? Don't have kids.

well, since they control the television and radio, i guess its time they control the internet. Welcome to China, everyone