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An Excerpt from: Cybersecurity May Threaten Free Speech
Since April of this year, Congress has been reviewing the "Cybersecurity Act of 2009" (bill s.773). While Congress' enumerated powers under the Constitution do include the power to "regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes", there is growing concern that this could be less about regulating commerce and more about the executive branch of the government being given the right to shut down the internet in part or whole.
The bill, on its own merits, has some questionable language which we will dissect in subsequent paragraphs. But, taken in concert with some recent appointments by the Obama administration, it creates some real concerns on individual freedoms.
While Mark Lloyd's appointment as the Chief Diversity Officer of the F.C.C. is of concern, the F.C.C. has no authority over the internet. That should be comforting, but due to the influence of Lloyd on the President and the fact that this bill gives enormous control of the internet to the President, a troubling link is created. Mark Lloyd wrote in his book The Prologue of Farce, “It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. . . . This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. . . . At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.”. Mr. Lloyd has also praised Hugo Chavez' takeover of radio and media as a "glorious revolution". His views on the silencing of opposing views is important only because the President has put him in such an influential role... [Continued]
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