Obama: ID Net Users - Campaign Potential

[Jack Bauer]

Obama wants to ID internet users. DRUDGE MAIN HEADLINES!

This is potentially a BIG point if the campaign calls in a press conference today to denounce this along with SOPA.

Someone who is in touch with the campaign, please do this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/fccs-genachowski-proposes-broadband-reform/2012/01/09/gIQA7CaflP_blog.html

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

uh so the internet will have a home page where you have to login? jeeze, that will destroy ANY PRIVACY whatsoever. Is this actually written yet?

[PastaRocket848]

they've been working on that system for a long time. they had a fancy, less-intimidating name for it, but i can't remember. something about universal online identifiers. think of it as a gov't run OpenID. the (supposed) motive? three... two... one.... ding! you guessed it: fightin' the turrists. at least that was the reasoning given in the article i read. it seems it would be far more useful at tracking individual's use and making like hell for bloggers you disagree with, though.

remember when Obama was going to be the "tech president"? this isn't what i thought he meant by it.

[pipewerKz]

Check out the "Identity Eco-system"

http://www.nist.gov/nstic/identity-ecosystem.html

This was a conspiracy theory, right? ;)

[PastaRocket848]

uhh.. no? they announced the program at its inception. it's not like they tried to cover it up or something.

[Tyler_Durden]

Obama wants to ID internet users. DRUDGE MAIN HEADLINES!

This is potentially a BIG point if the campaign calls in a press conference today to denounce this along with SOPA.

Someone who is in touch with the campaign, please do this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/fccs-genachowski-proposes-broadband-reform/2012/01/09/gIQA7CaflP_blog.html


When I read it, I thought this would supplement SOPA really well for them!! Censor it AND Track It!!

[flaversaver]

Would also kill software pirating I would think. The internet works just fine as it is. Why does government always have to meddle. It just infuriates me.

[pipewerKz]

uhh.. no? they announced the program at its inception. it's not like they tried to cover it up or something.

You're right, the government has been a model for transparency.