The Obama administration is proposing a new identity management system for the Internet which is calls “Identity Ecosystem.” This new system will replace individually managed usernames and passwords with a taxpayer-funded federally-managed system. The scheme is outlined in the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The planned system will tie together all of your [...]
A bill granting President Obama authority to close down Internet Service Providers (ISPs), search engines, and web sites without any type of due process was approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a voice vote this week. The bill now moves to the Senate floor for a vote. Senators Joe Lieberman [...]
As an NRA life member, it is difficult for me to concede that characterizations of the NRA as incompetent and self-serving are charitable and that the reality may be much worse. The NRA operated for many years as a bulwark of American freedom, focusing mainly on protecting the Second Amendment from statist predation. Unfortunately, in [...]
Bangladesh has blocked it’s subjects from accessing the popular social networking site Facebook because the Bangladeshi regime finds certain pages on the site offensive to their Islamic religion. Bangladesh is home to approximately 158,065,841 people, who each earn about $1,600 a year (adjusted for purchasing power parity). This ranks Bangladesh #193 out of 227 nations [...]
Liberty blogger Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has created a significant amount of off-web controversy by deciding to advertise her latest project on city buses across the United States. The ads on the buses read “Fatwa on your head? Is your family or community threatening you? LEAVING ISLAM? Got Questions? Get Answers! RefugeFromIslam.com” The project, [...]
Obama’s man at the FCC, Julius Genachowski, recently announced an extremely dangerous trick which gives the administration an unprecedented level of control over the Internet. Broadband Internet has been classified by the FCC as an information service. This has resulted in limited government regulation and a corresponding explosion in innovation and available services. Genachowski has [...]
