US government report recommends blocking popular websites during pandemic flu outbreak
The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth for investors, day traders and securities clearing house operations. The concern is that a pandemic would cause too many people to stay at home and download YouTube videos and porn, hogging all the internet bandwidth and blocking throughput for investment activities, thereby causing a stock market meltdown.
This isn't an April Fool's joke. It's all based on a public report issued by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), available from their website at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d108.pdf
The report is entitled, "GAO Report to Congressional Requesters, INFLUENZA PANDEMIC" and includes this subtitle: Key Securities Market Participants Are Making Progress, but Agencies Could Do More to Address Potential Internet Congestion and Encourage Readiness...
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Just one more step before the govt. totally takes over what we all view on the internet.
ReplyDeleteif gov. wasn't planning for the worst you would scream that they were asleep at the wheel. Now you have strategies just in case of Doomsday and you scream conspiracy.
ReplyDeleteThis administration has been the biggest nightmare America has faced since WW II . This mad man must be stopped !
ReplyDeleteJust another way the Obama administration can take away our freedom of speech
ReplyDeleteAnyone who knows anything about how Communists have taken over countries, and how their process always began with the curtailment of the free-flow of information, this GAO report is very ominous.
ReplyDelete10:25 Stopped how? This is very dangerous stuff that some nut is going to take as permission to violence.
ReplyDeleteObama as a martyr will be your worst nightmare.
Once again the right wing nuts come out over nothing. I would have to agree with this step, be it from Bush or Obama. This totally makes sense.
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