Obama

[telcoman]

Is on the ball working hard as

"U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world ... ml?_r=1&hp

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Wonder why GWB didn't do this?

"The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype “Internet in a suitcase.”
Financed with a $2 million State Department grant, the suitcase could be secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow wireless communication over a wide area with a link to the global Internet."

I wonder if the GOP wants to cut the $2 million?

"The new initiatives have found a champion in Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose department is spearheading the American effort."

Imagine that!

Is this the same Hillary that the right hates so much?

"In an anonymous office building on L Street in Washington, four unlikely State Department contractors sat around a table. Josh King, sporting multiple ear piercings and a studded leather wristband, taught himself programming while working as a barista. Thomas Gideon was an accomplished hacker. Dan Meredith, a bicycle polo enthusiast, helped companies protect their digital secrets.
Then there was Mr. Meinrath, wearing a tie as the dean of the group at age 37. He has a master’s degree in psychology and helped set up wireless networks in underserved communities in Detroit and Philadelphia."

A community organizer!

I'm sure the right will want to kill the budget as soon as they discover a community organizer is involved.

Love reading The Sunday New York Times

Telcoman

[Cold_Zero]

Didnt Congress under the S.773 - Cybersecurity Act of 2009 attempt to give the President control to shut down the internet in the United States?
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s773/text
This issue keeps coming up and thank God never passes so that the Federal Government does not have a 'Kill Switch" to the internet. But I dont see the Obama Administration out there calling for these powers NOT to be enacted.
Kind of sends a mixed message. Please use the internet in your country to overthrow your totaliterian government, but please trust US to use the same control only for good.

[Cold_Zero]

Wonder why GWB didn't do this?

Telcoman

Do you really have to ask this? It is laughable. The guy that signed the Patriot Act into law, expanded the police state in this country by forming the Department of Homeland Security and skated the line with warrent less wire taps would be worried about liberties? Please.

[IBCoupe]

The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks. Wonder why GWB didn't do this.

Howie, quote this message to see how to do what I think you're trying to do.

[R/T Hemi]

It's a move in the right direction. Piss off a few tin pots and who cares. Good job Obama.