Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans

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STANFORD, Calif.--President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.

It's ''the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government'' to centralize efforts toward creating an ''identity ecosystem'' for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.

Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans - Tech Talk - CBS News
 

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I thought they all ready did,since everyone has IP number,If someone does something wrong that's all they have to do.I have no care in the world over this.It just seem like a way for the government to waist money on,less important stuff.
 
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And let's keep in mind that the government's #1 job is to keep it's citizens safe.

That is not their job. The government is not your mommy. It's there to provide for infrastructure, social order and justice, aid in the establishment and maintaining of an economy and common defense from external enemies.

Why the pathetic left isn't up in arms over this and the other clear erosions of our liberty that Obama and the dems have been party to over the past few years is all one needs to know about their non-existent love of liberty and privacy.

And anyone who thinks this won't end up being used by the government for the data mining purposes is downright delusional.
 
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Not objecting to something is a little different than loving it.
You were actively defending it.

And let's keep in mind that the government's #1 job is to keep it's citizens safe.
And love pats don't do that.
 
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Why the pathetic left isn't up in arms over this and the other clear erosions of our liberty that Obama and the dems have been party to over the past few years is all one needs to know about their non-existent love of liberty and privacy.

And anyone who thinks this won't end up being used by the government for the data mining purposes is downright delusional.
The left isn't upset, because its the left that is considering it. The left will do what the left thinks is right. But when someone else comes into power... then its terrible. The left doesn't think its people will abuse power, I believe the right thinks this way too. But those other guys..!

Stop thinking we and them, think of the goverment as a seperate being.
It might be made up of left thinkers, or right thinkers, but it is self serving,
and interested in increasing its power and control.

And let's keep in mind that the government's #1 job is to keep it's citizens safe.
Lets just give goverment all our money, personal information, our weapons to defend ourselves with, and every aspect of our lives so they can keep us safe.

The person that wants goverment to provide everything must expect goverment to take everything in order to do that.
-1;the person that wants the goverment to keep them completely safe, must put all trust in the goverment to do so.

So the goverment will know every place you go online?
Goverment will know what you buy online?
Goverment will be able to know who you are when chatting or posting on a forum?
Goverment will be able to know where most of us go on vacation?
And eventually, goverment will compromise some or all of the id's, allowing the world to know above, and probably will profit some criminal in some way.
Goverments id # is the reason people need to pay protection money to organizations that will help prevent identity thieves. Now goverment wants to centralize everything into one id?

Goverment is not the answer, unless the question is how to tie up everything in red tape.
 
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This actually doesn't appear to be mandatory, but it should be fought out of existence anyway. Anonymity and pseudo-anonymity is what allowed the Internet to flourish. No one country should have this kind of control over it. ICANN really needs to set themselves up on a cruise ship that roams around in international waters or something...
 
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Americans have been forced to surrender their freedoms for the sake of national security since 9/11. Why should that change now? With executive orders and the ever-looming threat of terrorism, Washington has carte blanche to turn America into a police state.

At least in a REAL war, declared by Congress, the White House has limits on its power. This perpetual state of limbo (neither peace nor war) enables the federal govt. to do as it pleases, regardless of which puppet is elected (left or right).

This is the terror that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends. Some people started fighting it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue fighting it forever just because...

GOD BLESS AMERICA. GOTT MIT UNS!
 
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