Obama Signs Executive Order At National Cybersecurity Summit

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Reaver192

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I personally want everyone out of my business. Not for any reason other than just because. However, one thing that does need to have a better set of standards is protecting the private business sectors information. Employers have our social security numbers, address, pay, insurance information ext along with their own sensitive information and property that they create and store. We need to require employers to be liable for data breaches, as well as protect ourselves from foreign threats like China's military hacking division. I don't really see how anything in this bill really helps to do that?????? All I see is the government which is heavily influenced by hollywood trying to protect the interests of the the movie industry. Quite honestly I would gladly pay to watch anything from home....... I DONT LIKE MOVIE THEATERS>>>>>>>> My home is far more comfortable................ IF YOU DONT LIKE WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING THEN RE-EVALUATE YOUR BUSINESS MODEL........ PEOPLE TORRENT AND WATCH SCREWED UP CRAP ON THE INTERNET BECAUSE WE WANT IT................ADAPT OR LOSE. THE PEOPLE DONT OWE THE GOVERNMENT ANYTHING........THEY WORK FOR US.....so many people forget that, and feel that they should bow down.
 

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In response to how internet is open and free. As far as I understand, my ISP stands inbetween me and the open internet of packet traffic. The ISP can see anything I do over the internet, and can implement a block to my service if it notices activity that violates anything on their user agreement. Can my ISP share my personal information? I do not know that answer.
You literally just reposted the same nonsense. Are you allowed to vote? Because if you are, don't. Your ISP gives you the MEANS to access the open internet. They aren't coming between you and the internet, they are the BRIDGE between you and the internet. If packets didn't pass through their networks, they wouldn't reach the internet at all!

ISPs are not the villains here, and going from "my data passes through my ISP's network" to "my data passes through my ISP's network as well as a federal system for screening" is not a positive change. But that's exactly the kind of thing that the President and his ilk are aiming for.
 

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This is quite possibly the scariest view on the Internet I've ever heard from a major US politician...

"Since the advent of the Internet, it has rested mostly in the hands of business in the private sector with limited government regulation. As a result, the Internet has faced some difficulties in its evolution."

THIS IS *THE* REASON THE INTERNET HAS BEEN AS SUCCESSFUL AS IT HAS BEEN! Obama is calling the the single largest reason for the Internet's expansive, unprecedented, universal, growth as a reason for it's 'difficult evolution'? WTF does that even mean? The Internet's evolution has been anything BUT difficult to evolve...it's been the PINNACLE of evolution and change and it's PRECISELY BECAUSE it hasn't been regulated that it's been so!

This man's views on the Internet are EXTREMELY dangerous for its future. This man is a temporary, 8 year steward of our country, but a law he pushes for and signs now regarding the Internet may very well be with us FOREVER. Don't let a temp pass laws that could change the course of the Internet for all times! The Internet is special BECAUSE it's been unregulated, not despite it. It's the REASON it's been as successful as it has been, and letting a technological hack push for change is the worst possible answer to a question that hasn't even been asked.
 

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Doing this by Executive order = dictatorship. It is essentially the president giving an order to private entities mandating they give up data. Even thought the goal is a good one, the method is totally uncaceptable.

The president mentions a "Consumer privacy bill of rights". I support that idea. Others in this forum have mentioned something equivalent to HIPPA that governs how companies and the government handle personal data. I think that is a great idea too. But to do this by executive order, the president is mandating the providing of data without the protections that he himself is advocating.

The appropriate way to achieve this goal is to do it through the legislative process with legislation that combines the mandatory reporting requirements with the personal privacy protections that everyone seems to agree we need. To do one without the other is = dictatorship.
 

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I personally want everyone out of my business. Not for any reason other than just because. However, one thing that does need to have a better set of standards is protecting the private business sectors information. Employers have our social security numbers, address, pay, insurance information ext along with their own sensitive information and property that they create and store. We need to require employers to be liable for data breaches, as well as protect ourselves from foreign threats like China's military hacking division. I don't really see how anything in this bill really helps to do that?????? All I see is the government which is heavily influenced by hollywood trying to protect the interests of the the movie industry. Quite honestly I would gladly pay to watch anything from home....... I DONT LIKE MOVIE THEATERS>>>>>>>> My home is far more comfortable................ IF YOU DONT LIKE WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING THEN RE-EVALUATE YOUR BUSINESS MODEL........ PEOPLE TORRENT AND WATCH SCREWED UP CRAP ON THE INTERNET BECAUSE WE WANT IT................ADAPT OR LOSE. THE PEOPLE DONT OWE THE GOVERNMENT ANYTHING........THEY WORK FOR US.....so many people forget that, and feel that they should bow down.
 

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They watch you believe me! I have a sick bastard ex-friend who was caught by the "internet watchdog group" with kiddy porn. The "group" isn't even based in the states, its in the UK......
 
I think politics has blinded the people here that this is a good step. They're not kicking all ISPs out and making the governments supreme rulers of the Internet, rather they're trying to limit the power of the ISPs by having net neutrality. The ISPs are the abusers here and the president does not want that to continue. Yet people will quote this and hate just because they are blind by politics and biased to everything Obama does.

On the contrary what if a second Internet would "come out"? I mean what if there was an Internet revolution where new ISPs came out and a whole new branch of servers that exclude the current ones would come out, making two Internets essentially operated on different central and DNS servers? ... Lol just kidding :p
 
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