Web licenses to End Internet Anonymity

A Web License to End Internet Anonymity and free speech?

The first time I wrote this, I posted it on another site in 2010. A year later people are still talking about internet censorship. How is it going to turn out?

Microsoft is pushing for UK people to have to get �internet licenses� to prevent blogger anonymity and shut down �politically incorrect� sites.

Yes, this means you wouldn�t have views of your own, or, won�t be able to talk about them at least if someone thinks you are being too politically incorrect. If you have views that aren�t liberal or if you �lean too far to the Right� in someone else�s eyes, your views will be shut out from the public and later someone will be showing up at your door to fine and/or arrest you.

This already does happen in some countries, like Holland for example.
�September 19th 2007 the houses of four SF-members [StormFront-members] were invaded and computers and documents were seized. There�s enough evidence against two of these persons to prosecute them.�

Prosecute them for what, having non-matching political views? Exactly. There is no two sides to the story, people actually get in trouble for going on certain sites in foreign countries or submitting posts and blogs that express their own political views (given the political views). I�ve heard people say that they have had authority figures show up at their house because of something that happened in the real world.

Even in countries that are supposed to be �Democratic� and �fair� when it�s really just the opposite. For example, the German Prime Minister urged that the United States actually censor the internet- Germany asked the U.S. to censor all fascist and �right-wing� conservative and extremist sites. In Germany, I believe this passed and things like that are already being censored or in the process of being �blacklisted�, but the United States declined the censorship due to constitutional free-speech rights� The one time in modern America where we are actually protected by the constitution. (I believe this went on in 2009, so it is somewhat recent).

You might ask, Why suddenly post this now? Why post about stuff that happened from one to four years ago in Europe, and what does it have to do with what I was saying originally?
Well the same exact thing is happening again. Are they going to keep trying to do this with every country until the United States gives in and starts forcing people to get an �Internet License�? It might sound paranoid, but obviously it�s already happening in a lot of other countries, and is actually passing� Even in those countries that claim to be �free� and have free speech like the U.S. does.

�The American blogosphere is going increasingly �viral� about a proposal advanced at the recent meeting of the Davos Economic Forum by Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, that an equivalent of a �driver�s license� should be introduced for access to the web. This totalitarian call has been backed by articles and blogs in Time magazine and the New York Times.

As bloggers have not been slow to point out, the system being proposed is very similar to one that the government of Red China reluctantly abandoned as too repressive. It was inevitable that, sooner or later, the usual unholy alliance of government totalitarians and big business would attempt to end the democratic free-for-all that is the blogosphere. The United Nations is showing similar interest in moving to eliminate free speech.�

They claim that they are trying to stop �neo-Nazi� sites, whatever that is supposed to mean� But in examples like I listed above, like Germany and Holland, they specifically say they are trying to censor �neo-Nazi and right wing sites�. Well, I can assure you, Nazis ,or National Socialists to use the correct term, are not right-wing conservatives (conservative is more like a democratic label), they are trying to censor two completely different things. When (if) this happens, who is to say what is �too far to the right�?

That�s it? It�s only happening in some European countries? Nope, Australia too. This has already passed, technically things can already be censored but it isn�t fully in force yet. That�s kind of a different story but it�s web censorship nevertheless�
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia

Hypothetically, lets say this finally did in fact happen in the United States over this past winter in 2009. Hypothetically say they did appeal to Germany�s motion to censor �neo-nazi and right wing� sites�
Meaning, if you�re a Nationalist, if you don�t like immigration due to whatever reason (political, economic or other), and so on, that would be viewed as �right-wing�? Sadly, this is the mind-set most in the U.S. accommodate already, but most don�t actually have the power to censor us outright.

You might think it sounds paranoid, but so many people are pushing for this to happen in multiple different countries. What they�re looking for is various forms of forced integration, forcing people to have liberal and libertarian views only (leaning too far the other way would be �wrong�) and trying to eliminate free speech. They�re saying they are only eliminating hate speech by doing this� The sad truth about them doing it is that it�s hypocrisy for one, because they are censoring people�s views, and secondly that is forcing them to be the only ones in power by saying everyone else is just �hateful� and censoring them.

No group is filled only with peace and love, you can just as easily say they hate fascists and right wingers, therefore they silence something they could otherwise not control.
So that being the hypothetical situation in the United States, when will it really happen? Microsoft is an American company and they are obviously in favor of it as well as some other major businesses are, so many foreign British and European �free� countries are pushing for it, it�s not a very unrealistic prediction of this happening here in �The States� sometime soon.

I�m not the kind of �conspiracy-theorist� type of person either, I tend to see the outside and obvious points of things, so that should say something about how apparent this hidden agenda really is