The Weekly Standard – by Daniel Harper
In a speech today in South Korea, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Internet “needs rules to be able to flourish and work properly.” This, according to Kerry, is necessary even for “a technology founded on freedom.”
Speaking on behalf of the Obama administration, Kerry said that Internet policy is “a key component of our foreign policy.”
Kerry made his remarks in the context of talking about how international law is applicable to the Internet. “As I’ve mentioned, the basic rules of international law apply in cyberspace. Acts of aggression are not permissible. And countries that are hurt by an attack have a right to respond in ways that are appropriate, proportional, and that minimize harm to innocent parties. We also support a set of additional principles that, if observed, can contribute substantially to conflict prevention and stability in time of peace. We view these as universal concepts that should be appealing to all responsible states, and they are already gaining traction,” said Kerry.
“First, no country should conduct or knowingly support online activity that intentionally damages or impedes the use of another country’s critical infrastructure. Second, no country should seek either to prevent emergency teams from responding to a cybersecurity incident, or allow its own teams to cause harm. Third, no country should conduct or support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, trade secrets, or other confidential business information for commercial gain. Fourth, every country should mitigate malicious cyber activity emanating from its soil, and they should do so in a transparent, accountable and cooperative way. And fifth, every country should do what it can to help states that are victimized by a cyberattack.
“I guarantee you if those five principles were genuinely and fully adopted and implemented by countries, we would be living in a far safer and far more confident cyberworld.
“I guarantee you if those five principles were genuinely and fully adopted and implemented by countries, we would be living in a far safer and far more confident cyberworld.”
And I guarantee you the only “… far safer and far more confident cyberworld.” would be for our enemy.
Not in OUR best interests.
the internet was doing just fine until the commies butted their way in
Let me see if I got the word according to John Franken-Kerry right; in order to have a free and flourishing internet, we must regulate it, restrict it and tax it.
Just another day in Bizarro world.
Freedom is freedom..
Regulation is by its definition a restriction on freedom….
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Simply put, we have been overrun by an illegitimate group of lawless thugs who, serving outside interests (the international bankers), have been charged with the duty of removing each and all of our God-given rights and establishing an authoritarian rule in violation of every principal we as free men have ever espoused. I live to see all such traitors tried and judged. I shall not acquit them in any case.
Please join me in buying more lengths of hemp rope, that we may make our point clear to those who believe they will escape righteous judgement for their crimes.
Yah Bless the Republic;
No king but King Jesus