No more free internet?

[Sassy]

I've been reading lots about Internet II lately - it's been in the works for years - here, a Law Professor states: "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
http://www.infowars.net/articles/august2008/050808i911.htm

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.

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".

[ScottA]

Wonder what Glenn will do for fun after the net turns into Comcast Cablevision2? For that matter I wonder what I will do? Maybe I'll take up shooting pool or playing dominos. Fishing is almost like work and I never could figure out golf. All that walking around to hit a little ball?

[glenn kangiser]

Well, I'm a bit too old and burned out to keep up with what I used to do when there wasn't tv or the net to watch.

Maybe I'll take up a life of researching, rooting out and prosecuting government crime ....  like I'd live long enough.

[desdawg]

That little red devil would be on the endangered species list, is that what you are saying Glenn?