Posted on Jun 14, 2016
Farenthold: Cyber Will Be Next Administration's Greatest Challenge
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Should the government block access to some internet sites? If so, who decided what sites should/would be blocked?
Farenthold: Cyber Will Be Next Administration's Greatest Challenge
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No way, that's such a slippery slope. Today it's Muslim extremist sites, tomorrow it's illegal sites, the next day it's hate sites, before you know it anything anyone dislikes is removed and you're leFt with nothing.
Everyone is slowly asking to have all of their own rights removed and it's like they don't realize even if this one thing doesn't affect them, down the road something will.
Everyone is slowly asking to have all of their own rights removed and it's like they don't realize even if this one thing doesn't affect them, down the road something will.
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LTC (Join to see)
PO2 (Join to see) I agree, while there is some questionable and illegal material on the Internet, if the government is allowed to be the watchdog, it will end up being a site that only supports "the party line" which ever party that is.
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Touchy subject for me. The internet is about sharing of information. We've been dealing with all sorts of legislation seeking to throttle content and/or bandwidth ("Net Neutrality") and it has been a tough fight, since they try to sneak it in under the radar.
That said. We make it actively illegal to look at kiddie porn websites. I'm of a mind that we probably ought to be doing the same for seditious propaganda of enemies of the State. This isn't like people watching RT or something. Specifically targeting propaganda material of active combatant elements against the United States (eg, ISIS/ISIL). Blocked? Maybe. Illegal? Definitely.
That said. We make it actively illegal to look at kiddie porn websites. I'm of a mind that we probably ought to be doing the same for seditious propaganda of enemies of the State. This isn't like people watching RT or something. Specifically targeting propaganda material of active combatant elements against the United States (eg, ISIS/ISIL). Blocked? Maybe. Illegal? Definitely.
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PO2 (Join to see)
Where do you stop? Anti-Obama rhetoric is technically anti government. Which is anti America right?
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SSgt Ryan Sylvester
Not exactly. First Amendment. We citizens have the right, the obligation, to question our "leaders". We have the right to protest and to redress grievances. It doesn't get more American than that. But that's the major concern with allowing the State to start thought policing the Internet. Will they stop at the truly subversive, or will we find censorship blocks going up slowly until we start to look like China? That's one of the big reasons why we push hard for Net Neutrality.
But there does come a point when you look at something that actually does harm with how subversive it is. ISIS propaganda radicalizes people. We know thing. We've seen it happen. You start to wonder if it isn't better, for the sake of the country, to shut out access to that sort of material. But... slippery slope and all that.
But there does come a point when you look at something that actually does harm with how subversive it is. ISIS propaganda radicalizes people. We know thing. We've seen it happen. You start to wonder if it isn't better, for the sake of the country, to shut out access to that sort of material. But... slippery slope and all that.
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PO2 (Join to see)
SSgt Ryan Sylvester - one could argue that anti-government rhetoric incites revolution. The constitution protects free speech in all forms. That's how scum bags get away with protesting military funerals and burning flags. I'm just setting its all a bunch of stepping stones towards removal of constitutional rights.
Outside of that if say terrorist sympathizer sate posting on public forum is rather it stay right there where it can be easily seen tracked and researched rather then them finding a way to hide it better.
Outside of that if say terrorist sympathizer sate posting on public forum is rather it stay right there where it can be easily seen tracked and researched rather then them finding a way to hide it better.
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SGT Rick Ash
PO2 (Join to see) - Great points. Tell you what, burn a flag near me and whomever is going to feel MY heat. You play with fire, you're gonna' get burned...
Thanks,
Rick
Thanks,
Rick
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Definitely not. The only sites that I can think can be justified in blocking is kiddie porn. With the less demand for it because it's blocked the less kids forced into it.
Extremists websites I guarantee are already being monitored and if they are blocked they would find another way of communicating.
Extremists websites I guarantee are already being monitored and if they are blocked they would find another way of communicating.
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