Obama Administration Considering Shutting Down Internet Access Over Flu
Posted on Tuesday, October 27 @ 11:32:49 EDT
Topic: Barack Obama Campaign for President
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 ALIPAC NOTE: Ironic that Obama's DHS is
telegraphing a desire to shut down 'certain websites' and civilian
access to the Internet in response to this weak strain of flu,
considering the fact that civilian Internet communications are the
primary information sharing channels of his political opposition.
The Internet combined with talk radio is the biggest threat to Obama's
globalist open borders amnesty agenda. The White House clearly has
resentments towards any media not under the control of their masters.
ALIPAC is moving to create a phone bank that can be staffed with
employees and volunteers to reach our supporters during such an
emergency and attack on free speech. Please make sure that you are a recent donor to ALIPAC, so we will have
the current contact information necessary to reach you by phone or
snail mail if necessary.
Please support our current funds drive, so we will have the resources
we need to be able to communicate with you using backup methods, if
Obama moves to silence the American public on the web as DHS is
suggesting in this article.
Please spread the word and please contact your
members of Congress today to demand that the Obama administration keeps
their hands off of the Internet during a time of crisis, when the
American public will need full access to multiple sources of
information on the web.
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SEC and Homeland Security need Web backup, GAO says
Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:53pm
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Securities exchanges have a sound network
back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the
Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little
planning, Congressional investigators said on Monday.
The department does not even have a plan to start work on the issue, the General Accountability Office said.
But the Homeland Security Department accused the GAO of having
unrealistic expectations of how the Internet could be managed if
millions began to telework from home at the same time as bored or sick
schoolchildren were playing online, sucking up valuable bandwidth...
Experts have for years pointed to the potential problem of Internet
access during a severe pandemic, which would be a unique kind of
emergency. It would be global, affecting many areas at once, and would
last for weeks or months, unlike a disaster such as a hurricane or
earthquake.
H1N1 swine flu has been declared a pandemic but is considered a
moderate one. Health experts say a worse one -- or a worsening of this
one -- could result in 40 percent absentee rates at work and school at
any given time and closed offices, transportation links and other
gathering places.
Many companies and government offices hope to keep operations going
as much as possible with teleworking using the Internet. Among the many
problems posed by this idea, however, is the issue of bandwidth --
especially the "last mile" between a user's home and central cable
systems.
"Such network congestion could prevent staff from broker-dealers
and other securities market participants from teleworking during a
pandemic," reads the GAO report, available here
"The Department of Homeland Security is responsible for ensuring that critical telecommunications infrastructure is protected."
BLOCKING WEBSITES
Private Internet providers might need government authorization to
block popular websites, it said, or to reduce residential transmission
speeds to make way for commerce.
The Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for Critical
Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security, a group of
private-sector firms and financial trade associations, has been working
to ensure that trading could continue if big exchanges had to close
because of the risk of disease transmission.
"Because the key securities exchanges and clearing organizations
generally use proprietary networks that bypass the public Internet,
their ability to execute and process trades should not be affected by
any congestion," the GAO report reads.
However, not all had good plans for critical activities if many of their employees were ill, the report reads.
Homeland Security had done even less, it said.
"DHS has not developed a strategy to address potential Internet congestion," the report said.
It had also not even checked into whether the public or even other federal agencies would cooperate, GAO said.
"The report gives the impression that there is potentially a single
solution to Internet congestion that DHS could achieve if it were to
develop an appropriate strategy," DHS's Jerald Levine retorted in a
letter to the GAO.
"An expectation of unlimited Internet access during a pandemic is not realistic," he added.
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