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In Wake of Paris, FCC Seeks Power to Shutter Websites

11 points by Kinnard 11y ago

FussyZeus 11y ago
Sure, give them the power to snoop on and ban Playstation accounts. Facebook too. Then they'll just use something else. If you want to get information across the planet securely, you can do it, Internet is just by far the fastest and easiest. Nothing I've seen executed, since and including 9/11, needed anything more complex than explosives to pull off, so I don't see how regulating encryption technology for the 99.99% of legitimate users who aren't blowing things up is going to solve anything.
Kinnard 11y ago
The attacks were heinous and it's horrible that innocent people died, but we can't let the gruesome nature of the attacks prevent us from putting them into context— Nearly four times as many people die per week in the US from automobile accidents: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/opinion/117-deaths-each-day.html http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/opinion/117-deaths-each-da... These lives matter just as all lives matter, we need to fight automotive death and all causes of death with the same vigor that we fight terrorism deaths. We cannot again fall asleep to the pattern of behavior all governments exhibit in the aftermath of events like this. Snowden woke us up to that.
- pnt12 11y ago
  Terrorism really lives up to its name, it scares people and makes them act irrationaly to prevent it at all costs. I blame the media and politicians for focusing so much on it. Media act like vultures - the amount of time and specials they dedicate to massacres disgusts me. Many politicians seem to pass any law that might reduce terrorism, without analysing its costs. To clarify, I obviously feel sad for the victims of these massacres. But it we keep trying to prevent them by neglecting every other human basic right, we'll harm our whole society.
geogriffin 11y ago
Yes, it's crucial for our safety for the FCC to hold the power to shutter any website -- Wheeler knows humanity and the interwebs too well -- because we have all had that moment: venturing too many clicks deep, we stumbled upon a geocities troll who took things too far; and finding ourselves entranced by their extremist ideas surrounded by blink tags and javascript flashing background colors, turned to ISIS the next day and never looked back.
BerislavLopac 11y ago
I heard that the attack was prepared in a flat in Paris, perhaps they should also ban flats. And cars. And clothes.

11 points by Kinnard 11y ago

Sure, give them the power to snoop on and ban Playstation accounts. Facebook too. Then they'll just use something else. If you want to get information across the planet securely, you can do it, Internet is just by far the fastest and easiest. Nothing I've seen executed, since and including 9/11, needed anything more complex than explosives to pull off, so I don't see how regulating encryption technology for the 99.99% of legitimate users who aren't blowing things up is going to solve anything.

Kinnard 11y ago

The attacks were heinous and it's horrible that innocent people died, but we can't let the gruesome nature of the attacks prevent us from putting them into context— Nearly four times as many people die per week in the US from automobile accidents: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/opinion/117-deaths-each-day.html http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/opinion/117-deaths-each-da... These lives matter just as all lives matter, we need to fight automotive death and all causes of death with the same vigor that we fight terrorism deaths. We cannot again fall asleep to the pattern of behavior all governments exhibit in the aftermath of events like this. Snowden woke us up to that.

pnt12 11y ago
Terrorism really lives up to its name, it scares people and makes them act irrationaly to prevent it at all costs. I blame the media and politicians for focusing so much on it. Media act like vultures - the amount of time and specials they dedicate to massacres disgusts me. Many politicians seem to pass any law that might reduce terrorism, without analysing its costs. To clarify, I obviously feel sad for the victims of these massacres. But it we keep trying to prevent them by neglecting every other human basic right, we'll harm our whole society.

geogriffin 11y ago

Yes, it's crucial for our safety for the FCC to hold the power to shutter any website -- Wheeler knows humanity and the interwebs too well -- because we have all had that moment: venturing too many clicks deep, we stumbled upon a geocities troll who took things too far; and finding ourselves entranced by their extremist ideas surrounded by blink tags and javascript flashing background colors, turned to ISIS the next day and never looked back.

BerislavLopac 11y ago

I heard that the attack was prepared in a flat in Paris, perhaps they should also ban flats. And cars. And clothes.