"Cybersecurity Act of 2009" - American's beware of this...

[Ace of Spades]

I hope to god that this isn't passed, otherwise we're going to live in the world that games have been warning us about for years.

 

[Evil mr dave]

Muahaha! Not gunna be making fun of us Humble Canadians any more, you damn yankees!
Oh I kid, I kid.

I'm horrified, But not surprised.

damb straight man! straight out'a sprytown halifax NS!

but seriously how stupid is the american public to actually let this bill pass?

 

[LordMarcusX]

This all assumes that the people in power really give a rat's ass about what the rest of us boring individuals are doing on here.

This is America, people! Our leaders are as lazy and decadent as the rest of us!

 

[MikeOfThunder]

Hahaha!! Does the United States government honestly believe that it can control the internet? Thats the thing about online, you cannot control it. Governments have tried and they will continue to try but where there's a will... there's a way.

Soon Americans wont be able to search for human rights on google :O

BTW... very, very, nice quote thar! Loving it in every respect.

 

[TheDoctor455]

I really hope that this doesn't pass. The Internet is the last truly free place on Earth (and it's becoming less and less so every day). This could mean more 'security', but many Americans have given up a shit ton of rights lately for all their added security so this isn't necessary.

Actually, we've been forced to give up shitloads of rights for the ILLUSION OF SECURITY.

True that. This is just one of the reasons why I'm truly proud to be Canadian. But if we start down the same path I'm moving to Scandinavia.

And if Scandinavia starts doing it too? (i.e. what if every internet-connected country starts doing this?)

Then I move back to Canada and learn to accept it while reminiscing about the good old days of freedom.

That's what I thought.

 

[brewbeard]

*friends* THANK YOU! Don't be paranoid people!

Saying it doesn't make it so.

That said, the summary at least doesn't make it sound very threatening. I'd have to read through the entire document to really analyze it.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

This is one of those extremely abundant times that I'm glad I'm not American.

Edit: Although from the OP's brief summery, it sounds like it only affects Government related networks.

 

[RemoteControlRox]

This is a statement regarding the bill from Jena Longo, deputy communications director for the Senate Commerce committee:

"The President of the United States has always had the Constitutional authority, and duty, to protect the American people and direct the national response to any emergency that threatens the security and safety of the United States. The Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity bill makes it clear that the President's authority includes securing our national cyber infrastructure from attack. The section of the bill that addresses this issue, applies specifically to the national response to a severe attack or natural disaster. This particular legislative language is based on longstanding statutory authorities for wartime use of communications networks. To be very clear, the Rockefeller-Snowe bill will not empower a "government shut down or takeover of the internet" and any suggestion otherwise is misleading and false. The purpose of this language is to clarify how the President directs the public-private response to a crisis, secure our economy and safeguard our financial networks, protect the American people, their privacy and civil liberties, and coordinate the government's response."

Calm yourselves down

Thank you.

A government takeover of the internet. Pffhahahaha.

 

[Cortheya]

I read about this...The rationalization is that (paraphrasing) "If a story gets out that your power's going to go out or your ATM won't work, people will panic. We need to be able to stop that"
ABSURD!!!! I cannot think of something worse for this country. NOTHING is worse for a free society than speech, press or media in the service of the government.

 

[AvsJoe]

I really hope that this doesn't pass. The Internet is the last truly free place on Earth (and it's becoming less and less so every day). This could mean more 'security', but many Americans have given up a shit ton of rights lately for all their added security so this isn't necessary.

Actually, we've been forced to give up shitloads of rights for the ILLUSION OF SECURITY.

True that. This is just one of the reasons why I'm truly proud to be Canadian. But if we start down the same path I'm moving to Scandinavia.

And if Scandinavia starts doing it too? (i.e. what if every internet-connected country starts doing this?)

Then I move back to Canada and learn to accept it while reminiscing about the good old days of freedom.

That's what I thought.

All the more reason to hope that this bill doesn't pass and get the ball rolling. Despite what everybody believes, the US does control the world and will probably invade any country that doesn't follow it's lead in 'Internet Security' before too long.

 

[Cortheya]

This is a statement regarding the bill from Jena Longo, deputy communications director for the Senate Commerce committee:

"The President of the United States has always had the Constitutional authority, and duty, to protect the American people and direct the national response to any emergency that threatens the security and safety of the United States. The Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity bill makes it clear that the President's authority includes securing our national cyber infrastructure from attack. The section of the bill that addresses this issue, applies specifically to the national response to a severe attack or natural disaster. This particular legislative language is based on longstanding statutory authorities for wartime use of communications networks. To be very clear, the Rockefeller-Snowe bill will not empower a "government shut down or takeover of the internet" and any suggestion otherwise is misleading and false. The purpose of this language is to clarify how the President directs the public-private response to a crisis, secure our economy and safeguard our financial networks, protect the American people, their privacy and civil liberties, and coordinate the government's response."

Calm yourselves down

Thank you.

A government takeover of the internet. Pffhahahaha.

Oh well if the person in charge says that it's gonna be ok then it's FINE!!!! My avatar says he's your benevolent god but would you want your country to be run by Anubis?

 

[ygetoff]

You must realize this is not a law. It's a senate proposal. It's not real yet, and probably won't be. Americans (myself included) tend to like the internet.