Obama Joins UN Effort to Dictate Acceptable Behavior on the Internet
source: http://Infowars.com
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Robert Knake, a cyberwarfare expert with the Council on Foreign Relations, says the signed agreement represents a significant change in U.S. posture. Participation of the U.S. demonstrates the Obama administration’s strategy of diplomatic engagement, according to Knake.
“To achieve that goal nations will share information about their cybersecurity laws, develop international standards of conduct, and help less developed countries tighten their cybersecurity. The principles have been finalized for the United Nations, but there is no indication when they will be reviewed,” reports writes Bert Knabe for Lubbock Online.
As Infowars.com has reported, the threat of cyber attacks is vastly overstated. Dire reports issued by the Defense Science Board and the Center for Strategic and International Studies “are usually richer in vivid metaphor — with fears of ‘digital Pearl Harbors’ and ‘cyber-Katrinas’ — than in factual foundation,” writes Evgeny Morozov, a Belarus-born researcher and blogger who writes on the political effects of the internet.
Morozov notes that much of the data on the supposed cyber threat “are gathered by ultra-secretive government agencies — which need to justify their own existence — and cyber-security companies — which derive commercial benefits from popular anxiety.”
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BTW TomTucker, good catch, this is something people really need to pay attention to.
But all the same: "the same protection and the same restrictions on conduct as in the real world."
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If Richard Clarke says that Cyber-war and Cyber-terrorism is a real threat, I believe him... There needs to be a balance, but I say "take the red pill".
And while I also agree that freedom of speech is a really valuable part of the Internet, there is such a thing as crime and even the Internet should not become a place where it is safe to brag and publish murder, rape and theft. It shouldn't be an engine increasing abuse and crime in the real world. We don't allow that kind of thing in the snail mail, traditional broadcast and telecommunications media, and we should apply similar standards to the internet that we do to conduct elsewhere. The same protections and the same restrictions.
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