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Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is
Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act
Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig details government
plans to overhaul and restrict the Internet
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Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government
plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply
much greater restrictions and control over the web.
Lawrence Lessig, a respected Law Professor from
Stanford University told an audience at this years Fortune’s
Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California, that
"There’s going to be an i-9/11 event" which will
act as a catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining
to the internet.
Lessig also revealed that he had learned, during
a dinner with former government Counter Terrorism Czar Richard
Clarke, that there is already in existence a cyber
equivalent of the Patriot Act, an "i-Patriot Act" if
you will, and that the Justice Department is waiting for a cyber
terrorism event in order to implement its provisions.
During a group panel segment titled "2018:
Life on the Net", Lessig stated:
There’s going to be an i-9/11 event. Which
doesn't necessarily mean an Al Qaeda attack, it means an event
where the instability or the insecurity of the internet becomes
manifest during a malicious event which then inspires the government
into a response. You've got to remember that after 9/11 the
government drew up the Patriot Act within 20 days and it was
passed.
The Patriot Act is huge and I remember someone
asking a Justice Department official how did they write such
a large statute so quickly, and of course the answer was that
it has been sitting in the drawers of the Justice Department
for the last 20 years waiting for the event where they would
pull it out.
Of course, the Patriot Act is filled with all
sorts of insanity about changing the way civil rights are protected,
or not protected in this instance. So I was having dinner with
Richard Clarke and I asked him if there is an equivalent, is
there an i-Patriot Act just sitting waiting for some substantial
event as an excuse to radically change the way the internet
works. He said "of course there is".
Watch Lessig reveal the details at 4.30 into the
following video:
Lessig is the founder of Stanford Law School's Center
for Internet and Society. He is founding board member of
Creative Commons and is a board member of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation and of the Software Freedom Law Center. He is best
known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright,
trademark and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology
applications.
These are clearly not the ravings of some paranoid
cyber geek.
The Patriot Act, as well as its lesser known follow
up the Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as USA
Patriot Act II, have been universally decried by civil libertarians
and Constitutional scholars from across the political spectrum.
They have stripped back basic rights and handed what have been
described by even the most moderate critics as "dictatorial
control" over to the president and the federal government.
Many believed that the legislation was a response
to the attacks of 9/11, but the reality was that the Patriot Act
was prepared way in advance of 9/11 and it sat dormant, awaiting
an event to justify its implementation.
In the days after the attacks it was passed in the
House by a majority of 357 to 66. It passed the Senate by 98 to
1. Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that
no member of Congress was even allowed to read the legislation.
Now we discover that exactly the same freedom restricting
legislation has already been prepared for the cyber world.
An i-9/11, as described by Lawrence Lessig, would
provide the perfect pretext to implement such restrictions in
one swift motion, as well as provide the justification for relegating
and eliminating specific content and information on the web.
Such an event could come in the form of a major
viral attack, the hacking of a major city's security or transport
systems, or some other vital systems, or a combination of all
of these things. Considering the amount of unanswered questions
regarding 9/11 and all the indications that it was a covert false
flag operation, it isn't hard to imagine such an event being played
out in the cyber world.
However, regardless of any i-9/11 or i-Patriot Act,
there is already a coordinated effort to stem the reach and influence
of the internet.
We have tirelessly
warned of this general movement to restrict, censor,
control and eventually completely shut down the internet as we
know it, thereby killing the last real vestige of free speech
in the world today and eliminating the greatest communication
and information tool ever conceived.
Our governments have reams of legislation penned
to put clamps on the web as we know it. Legislation such as the
PRO-IP
Act of 2007: H.R. 4279, that would create an IP czar
at the Department of Justice and the Intellectual
Property Enforcement Act of 2007: S. 522, which would
create an entire ‘Intellectual Property Enforcement Network’.
These are just two examples.
In addition, we have already seen how the major
corporate websites and social networks are
decentralizing and coming together to implement overarching
identification, verification and access systems that have been
described by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as "the beginning
of a movement and the beginning of an industry.”
Some of these major tech companies have already
joined efforts in projects such as the Information
Card Foundation, which has proposed the creation
of a system of internet ID cards that will be required for internet
access. Of course, such a system would give those involved the
ability to track and control user activity much more effectively.
This is just one example.
In addition, as we reported
yesterday, major transportation hubs like St. Pancras
International, as well as libraries, big businesses, hospitals
and other public outlets that offer wi-fi Internet, are blacklisting
alternative news websites and making them completely inaccessible
to their users.
These precedents are merely the first indication
of what is planned for the Internet over the next 5-10 years,
with the traditional web becoming little more than a vast spy
database that catalogues people’s every activity and bombards
them with commercials, while those who comply with centralized
control and regulation of content will be free to enjoy the new
super-fast Internet
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We must speak out about this rampant move to implement
strict control mechanisms on the web NOW before it is too late,
before the spine of the free internet is broken and its body essentially
becomes paralyzed beyond repair.
Related:
Get Outraged And Get Active About Internet Censorship
Hat Tip: Harold Gray, JustGetThere.us
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