Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out that Westerners rely on the internet for information, because most newsrooms of America and Europe are infested with antivenitist apes, and their mindset spills over into the news coverage, producing biased news stories on many issues, such as kleptocracy, taxes, environment, government, insurance, and health. Infamous Greek journalists received 100 million euros from Siemens, in order to keep their mouths shut about the billion-euro-kickbacks to Graecokleptocrats!
Basil Venitis, an Athenian orator, claims that the mainstream media are unfair, unbalanced, banal, vane, and hoipolloi trash. Newspapers have become screed wraps of DVDs. TV news has sold its soul to rabblerousers and pullpeddlers and is full of set-up arguments. Reporters have been transformed to statist parrots who doubledip in the state treasury. Anchormen have become the czars of statist banality and propaganda. Guest coordinators have developed the deepest throats in the publicity market! The truth can be found only in the internet.
Venitis notes that Greek journalists are rewarded for their disgusting support of Graecokleptocracy with aggeliosimo, an unfair 20% charge on all advertising, going to the pension fund of their union. All advertisers now have to pay 43% surcharge, 23% VAT and 20% aggeliosimo. This abuse of advertisers and the media is condoned by Fourth Reich, and it puts many media out of business.
Venitist Philip Giraldi points out the real reason for controlling the internet is to restrict access to information, something every government seeks to do, and to impose sales tax and VAT in cyberspace. If the American Departments of Defense and Homeland Security and Senator Lieberman have their way, new cybersecurity laws will enable Obama's administration to take control of the internet in the event of a national crisis. How that national crisis might be defined would be up to the White House but there have been some precedents that suggest that the response would hardly be respectful of the Bill of Rights.
Giraldi notes that many countries already monitor and censor the internet on a regular basis, forbidding access to numerous sites that they consider to be subversive or immoral. During recent unrest, the governments of both Iran and China effectively shut down the internet by taking control of or blocking servers. Combined with switching off of cell phone transmitters, the steps proved effective in isolating dissidents. Could it happen here? Undoubtedly. Once the laws are in place a terrorist incident or something that could be plausibly described in those terms would be all that is needed to have government officials issue the order to bring the internet to a halt.
But the ability to control the internet technically is only part of the story. Laws are being passed that criminalize expressing one's views on the internet, including both hate crime legislation and broadly drafted laws that make it a crime to support what the government describes loosely as terrorism in any way shape or form. Regular extra-legal government intrusion in the private lives of citizens is already a reality, particularly in the Western Democracies that have the necessary technology and tech-savvy manpower to tap phones and invade computers.
In Europe, draconian anti-terrorism laws enable security agencies to monitor phone calls and e-mails, in many cases without any judicial oversight. In Britain, the monitoring includes access to detailed internet records that are available for inspection by no less that 653 government agencies, most of which have nothing whatsoever to do with security or intelligence, all without any judicial review. In the United States, the Pentagon recently sought an internet and news instant response capability which it dubbed the Office of Strategic Influence and it has also seeded a number of retired military analysts into the major news networks to provide a pro-government slant on the war news.
The State Department is also in the game, tasking young officers to engage presumed radicals in debate on their websites while the growing use of national security letters means that private communications sent through the internet can be accessed by Federal law enforcement agencies. The Patriot Act created national security letter does not require judicial oversight. More than 35,000 were issued by the FBI last year and the recipient of a letter commits a felony if he or she reveals the receipt of the document. In a recent case involving an internet provider in Philadelphia, a national security letter demanded all details of internet messages sent on a certain date, to include account information on clients with social security numbers and credit card references.
Giraldi asserts the danger is real. Most Americans who are critical of the actions of their own government rely on the internet for information that is uncensored and often provocative. Wordpress host Blogetery had been shut down by United States authorities along with all 73,000 Blogetery-hosted blogs. The company's ISP is claiming that it had to terminate Blogetery's account immediately after being ordered to do so by law enforcement officials due to material hosted on the server. The extreme response implies a possible presumed terrorist connection, but it is important to note that no one was charged with any actual offense, revealing that the government can close down sites based only on suspicion. It is also likely only a matter of time before Obama's internet warfare teams surface either at the Defense Department or at State.
Deliberately overloading and attacking the internet to damage its credibility, witness the numerous sites that have been hacked and have had to cease or restrict their activities. But the moves afoot to create a legal framework to completely shut the internet down and thereby control the message are far more dangerous. American citizens who are concerned about maintaining their few remaining liberties should sound the alarm and tell the politicians that we don't need more government abridgement of our First Amendment rights.
The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. Governments have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that they will have a virtual monopoly on information that the public is able to access.
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