US plans to 'fight the net' revealed

That is seriously scary. Imagine, the entire world's communications completely controlled by the US military. Let's hope they fail.

I heard of this this morning.It was only a matter of time...the Net is a little too "free" for the bureaucrats to stomach.

That's why sites like newsvine are so important: the more people interact with each other about the news, the less effective "psychological operations" will be and the harder it will be for the US to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum."

Very frightening indeed...

Here's the part that scares me:

"US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum"."

Sounds like an EMP pulse, something right out of a sci-fi movie.

Crazy americans. What will they do next?

Does anyone see the irony that only days ago the government raised it's eyebrow at Google for giving in to the Chinese government on censorship?

Also, considering how computer networks and the global economy are intertwined, has the military even stopped to think that crippling any portion of this network would also cripple the U.S.? Or do they just not care?

Two Five words: Oh @!$%#, here it comes.

Hmm...apparently Newsvine doesn't support the strike tag.

Maybe ICAAN should be globalized , thus making control of the web more balanced. I know the US is against it , but stories like this make light bulb turn on. Why relinquish control of a system that can be used as a worldwide weapon.
David Bowie said it well, on track #8 of Earthling.

I love being an American.

It was Ronald Reagan's fault when he proposed to construct an exoatmospheric kill vehicle.

Are you people serious? You really buy this crap? Tone down the sensationalism a bit please. Obviously if "they" seriously must censor something they can and will. They have always been able to by various means. This has no effect on your little blogs. You give yourselves too much credit.

This has nothing to do with blogs. Here comes the quote again: "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum." That's bad.

It's indeed very scary. Has the American government a right to secretly influence other countries? What's democratic of that action?

R.W. Faught: My concern is not for invividual blog sites, but the internet on the whole where one country regulates how the rest of the world views it.

KevinR: I love bieng an American too, but things like this make me fear my government just a little more. Bad enough there is already little faith for the current administration.
They are basically declaring the web a battleground. Well, who are the casualties and what is the collateral damage?

The extent to which information is packet-formed-and-transfered can cause it to eventually become a target for de-usement (no longer practical). New technologies already lurking on the horizon can easily re-establish variant modalities of incorporating abstruse data into infinitely complex, algorythmical constructs.

By that I meant: S-h-i-t, we are being defecated upon and can't even tell others about it without the whiole world knowing...can I keep my own s-h-i-t to myself for a change?

The internet has caused an sea-change in how we communicate. (duh) Who uses phones anymore? They are so slow. If this were to go through, we would all be cut off, from news, from friends, from people we havent met yet, from our *gasp* newsvine! We would all (except high-up US mil folks) sent back to the stone age.

right on to a point: we're still in the stone age...