Government starts testing a Program in which a user must have License (Internet ID) to access the Internet

[sof006]

Wah? No.

[wrath]

bs

[Tonylu1595]

Well this reminds me of Ender's Game where everyone had their own identity on the internet. Guess this removes the anonymity of the internet.

[mikeeginger]

O yay more invasion to our privacy 

[Astralify]

I feel sick... I WANT OUT of this planet!

[vikeyev]

I consider Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan(but damn Tsunami's and Hurricane's SUCK) and even New Zealand if that Internet based party gets somewhere, but man.. it is hard looking in to Canada to become a citizen as a U.S. citizen, I mean damn.  Canadian's got some good immigration in place, like -really- good immigration.  I love you Canada.  Have me as your new found child.

 

Australia was also good for that until Abbott got into power :angry: :angry: :angry: (I'll spare you the never ending rant  ) :angry: :angry: :angry:

At least ISP's like iiNet have been fighting against them.

 

"Police say “If you have nothing to hide, then you shouldn’t be worried”. Personally I think that if you follow that dubious logic, we’d all be walking around naked. It’s not about being worried, or wanting to ‘hide’ anything. It’s about the right to decide what you keep private and what you allow to be shared. YOU should be the one to make that call, and that decision should stick until a warrant or something similar is issued to law enforcement agencies to seize your information."

[c.bert]

Just WOW! Why did they spend sooo much money on a joke of a scheme when the government is always complaining about how they have a budget deficit.

[SurvivorNVL]

That is interesting... Hopefully it doesn't really take off or at least on to the Internet as a whole...

But I find it childish to think that some of you "It's Obama's fault" people are like that this way...

He probably has no involvement... It's probably the NSA that wants something like that so... Which party started the NSA? and which party decided to fund the NSA even further?

Republicans... 

Not to further push on a political debate, but now-a-days the differences between most Democrats and Republicans in America is who lines the pockets of each party.  The differences between the two are negligible at this point in time as both live solely to keep someone in office to further not their needs alone but the needs of those who fund them to get in to office.    The Repub's may've created the NSA, but the NSA at this point in time - is practically it's own separate entity from the Government as it watches not only us but the politicians who govern us.  It's like all ideas of Human history - someone intends for something to be good, like Religion, a civil society, etc and then one person comes up and says, "We could do this another way.." and twists something in to a newfound entity that is so far off from it's original purpose people lose sight of what it really was to begin with.  *BREATHES*   

[DaRk0]

That is interesting... Hopefully it doesn't really take off or at least on to the Internet as a whole...

But I find it childish to think that some of you "It's Obama's fault" people are like that this way...

He probably has no involvement... It's probably the NSA that wants something like that so... Which party started the NSA? and which party decided to fund the NSA even further?

Republicans...

It doesn't really matter who started the NSA back in 1950s. Pretty much every country have their own intelligence and counterintelligence agency from WWII to this date.

While I don't agree with them spying on innocent people (waste of resources), they do have far more serious role in the US security.

Source:

My great grandfather was one of the founders of Yugoslav counterintelligence agency within Yugoslav peoples army back in 1943. My grandfather was one of the operatives in that same agency.

[handymanshandle]

 

Yea just making a point... 

[TAK]

Can someone already fix the title, this still has nothing to do with internet access.

[mr moose]

Australia was also good for that until Abbott got into power :angry: :angry: :angry: (I'll spare you the never ending rant  ) :angry: :angry: :angry:

 

At least ISP's like IInet have been fighting against them.

 

Oh please. people need to stop jumping on the abbot hate wagon, the internet and free media has been doomed under all governments.  Remember Julia Gillard wanted a mandatory internet filter (Just about every evil that can befall the internet has been proposed and supported by both parties and some point).   The problem is not the PM, but Australian governance as a whole.

[vikeyev]

Oh please. people need to stop jumping on the abbot hate wagon, the internet and free media has been doomed under all governments.  Remember Julia Gillard wanted a mandatory internet filter (Just about every evil that can befall the internet has been proposed and supported by both parties and some point).   The problem is not the PM, but Australian governance as a whole.

 

The mandatory filter was struck down, like the filthy beast it was, the entire country hated it....well most of the country. But all of these mandatory data retention schemes and filters and anti-piracy measures, I'm genuinely not sure if the Gumbyment actually knows how the internet and technology works or if they just don't give a damn.

[Bloodyvalley]

STOP MESSING WITH THE INTERNET FFS

[ionbasa]

STOP MESSING WITH THE INTERNET FFS

They aren't. You and mostly everybody in this thread bought into the OP's sensationalized title and assumptions. Most of the articles referenced are also sensationalizing. If you look a page or two back, I break down what this is actually for. 

 

People are just jumping on the bandwagon because the wool has been pulled over their eyes.

[mr moose]

The mandatory filter was struck down, like the filthy beast it was, the entire country hated it....well most of the country. But all of these mandatory data retention schemes and filters and anti-piracy measures, I'm genuinely not sure if the Gumbyment actually knows how the internet and technology works or if they just don't give a damn.

 

It was struck down, my point was all PMs have bad policies which they generally take on advice, meaning while abbots mostly a walking publicity guff, he's not necessarily worse than any other PM we've had.

 

As far as the internet and the government goes, I don't think they care exactly what the the internet is, because they know enough to know that if they can't control it then they lose power. Information is power, and the internet is unfettered information. both good and bad.

[Nomelas]

and see this is how governments waste our money.

[Oradian]

Governments, stop fucking with the internet. Its fine as is. Just tell the ISP to get off their lazy asses and give us more bandwidth

[Diozark]

Just a thought, Where are the electronic components we use manufactured, ?

Mostly china right, So China propbaly already has everything they want to know about you !