Gird Your Blogs! Cyber Security Czar To Be Named In Coming Weeks
President Barack Obama is calling digital security a top priority, whether it’s guarding the computer systems that keep the lights on in the city and direct airliners to the right runway or those protecting customers who pay their bills online.
To oversee an enhanced security system for the nation’s computer networks, Obama is creating a “cyber czar” as part of a long-awaited plan stemming from a review he ordered shortly after taking office.
On Friday, Obama is expected to lay out broad goals for dealing with cyber threats while depicting the U.S. as a digital nation that needs to provide the education required to keep pace with technology and attract and retain a cyber-savvy work force. He also is expected to call for a new education campaign to raise public awareness of the challenges and threats related to cyber security.
The review, however, will not dictate how the government or private industry should tighten digital defenses. Critics say the cyber czar will not have sufficient budgetary and policy-making authority over securing computer systems and spending.
With the political schemes and games going on in DC since Obama’s election – it would come as no surprise if Obama’s administration and the progressives in Congress elected for a backdoor approach to control the Net.
The Fairness Doctrine was a “no-go” due mainly to the fact that word got out to too many people on what it actually meant/entailed. There was discussion of the next approach which would be localization or another cleverly termed piece of legislation called media diversity. Each form of media regulation would have loopholes allowing for specific media outlets or sites to be regulated and/or abolished if standards were not met.
From The Daily Uprising:
Today, President Obama will announce the creation of a new White House cyber-czar position with the power to promulgate security regulations and shut down private networks connected to the global internet.
There is no doubt that security measures are necessary to protect the internet. That’s why the last administration requested and got considerable funding from Congress for increased military and law enforcement internet security efforts from the NSA, Pentagon, FBI, and DHS. What there is still doubt about is how Obama’s plan to further fracture the United States’ efforts by adding Obama’s political team at the White House to the mix is going to help matters. We don’t oppose efforts to coordinate the nation’s internet defense amongst agencies, but when it comes to the White House determining security certification standards, micromanaging military procedure, or pulling the plug on networks, we dissent.
Given the Chrysler “Dealergate” uncovered by right-wing blogs, one could only assume that Obama and his cronies would attempt to use the Cyber Security Czar to block these blogs. Most news nowadays comes from the Internet. On a rare occasion I will tune into the news, but I tend to find that blogs and Internet forums provide me with up-to-the-minute information and become more and more significant. TV news seems to run a day or two behind the blogosphere and what better way for the liberals to silence the opposition or dumb down the rest of America so they have no idea what is really going on!
Will the liberals cry, protest, and whine about Obama’s big “brothering” of the Net? He has already expanded up on Bush’s wire-tapping and now he is going for the Internet… One would think this would be an issue for them…
GIRD YOUR BLOGS!
New Fairness Doctrine, “Media Diversity”
The FCC will hold a panel discussion entitled media diversity that will consist of 31 media and liberal grievance groups. The not so surprising thing to all of us will be the lack of representative of conservative outlets and radio programs. Not one conservative group will be represented in this commission; (media diversity?)
The gathering will take play next week, Thursday, May 7, 2009.
Chairing the meeting is Henry Rivera, a former FCC Commissioner who was (and presumably still is) a strong proponent of the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the “Fairness” Doctrine.
Many, many liberals in Washington have over the last several years called for a reinstatement of the Doctrine. But push-back from people who have read and actually understand the First Amendment led the Left to realize that the political price to bring it back was too high, so they MovedOn.org.
Of course, their desire to silence the lone voices of their opposition had not lessened in the slightest. They’re still just as dictatorial, just pragmatically so.
Take a look at the Commission:
Henry Rivera (Chair); Emma Bowen Foundation for Minority Interests in Media
Barbara Kreisman (Designated Federal Officer); Federal Communications Commission
Jamila Bess Johnson (Deputy Federal Officer); Federal Communications Commission
Carolyn Fleming Williams (Deputy Federal Officer); Federal Communications Commission
Raúl Alarcon, Jr.; Spanish Broadcasting System
Jenny Alonzo; Mio.TV
James M. Assey, Jr.; National Cable and Telecommunications Association
Geoffrey C. Blackwell; Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc.
Matthew Blank; Showtime Networks
Maria E. Brennan; American Women in Radio and Television
Kathy Brown; Verizon
Toni Cook Bush; Virgin Mobile
Alan B. Davidson; Google, Inc.
Ralph de la Vega; AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets
Steve Hillard; Council Tree Communications
David Honig; Minority Media and Telecommunications Council
Rodney Hood; National Credit Union Administration
Ronald Johnson; Ronson Network Services
Debra Lee; BET Holdings, Inc.
Jane Mago; National Association of Broadcasters
Robert Mendez; ABC Television Network
Marc H. Morial; National Urban League
Karen K. Narasaki; Asian American Justice Center
Melissa Newman; Qwest
Jake Oliver; Afro-American Newspapers
Susan K. Patrick; Patrick Communications
Lisa Pickrum; The RLJ Companies
Rey Ramsey; One Economy Corporation
Michael V. Roberts; Roberts Broadcasting Companies LLC
Andrew Schwartzman; Media Access Project
Anita Stephens; Graham Opportunity Capital Partners
Diane Sutter; Shooting Star Broadcasting
Charles Warfield; Inner City Broadcasting
James Winston; National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters
For those that might want to call and express outrage:
Phone: 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322)
TTY: 1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-835-5322)
Fax: 1-866-418-0232
E-mail: fccinfo@fcc.gov
And it’s not just our imagination – it’s also our lying eyes. The Center for American Progress is a left-wing hack outfit headed by former Clinton Administration and Obama Transition Team adviser John Podesta. And they released on January 22, 2007 a report entitled “Local Media Diversity Matters – Measure Media Diversity According to Democratic Values, Not Market Values.”
I have warned previously that liberals will pass legislation that sounds Utopian and wonderful because of its clever language, but it means something else entirely.
I am all for diversity and equality, so let’s make it real easy and put the same amount of air time on for each opinion on all radio stations and media outlets… This FCC rule would force one side off the air – how constitutional/sarc!
The broadcast license is of course a station’s lifeblood; take it away, or make it impossible to meet the regulatory obligations to keep it, and they are literally out of business. The Left, no longer comfortable with trying the top-down, all-out assault that is the “Fairness” Doctrine, intends instead to silence conservative and Christian talk via this broadcast license manipulation.
If they can succeed in making it impossible for talk radio to operate as a business, talk radio will cease to operate. Leftist problem solved.
ObamaNation and the New World Order?
02/08/09
Back when I was in college; around the same time paper was invented, I studied conspiracy theories and the New World Order. I even wrote a thesis on the subject; most of which I have since forgotten. However, as I opened my newspaper this morning (ok, I turned on my computer but the visual isn’t as compelling) I felt a familiar pang in my gut.
The past two weeks have been filled with the stimulus bill and the ramming of every ludicrous liberal agenda item into it. Hardly noticed, except by the viligant, has been talks of reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine (aka., censorship); an unprecedented move by the White House to oversee the 2010 census (congressional districts are determined by the census); and now I am reading the NSC is undergoing a sweeping overhaul “expanding its membership and increasing its authority to set strategy across a wide spectrum of international and domestic issues.”
I don’t know if I should be afraid or if I should go into counseling for paranoia. But, I do know that my gut is telling me something hinkey is going on. Our government is on track to expand it’s reach into our businesses, homes, lives, and yes even thoughts in a way never before seen in our nation’s history. For the past 8 years I have been afraid of terrorists and the possibility of another attack on our soil. Today, I am afraid of our government and its ongoing attack on us. Or, maybe I should add some Bailey’s to my coffee and just chill.
