Lawrence Lessig, Professor an der Stanford University, erzählte dem Publikum der diesjährigen Fortune Brainstorm: Tech Konferenz folgendes:

There’s going to be an i-9/11 event. Which doesn’t necessarily mean an Al Qaeda attack, it means an event where the instability or the insecurity of the internet becomes manifest during a malicious event which then inspires the government into a response. You’ve got to remember that after 9/11 the government drew up the Patriot Act within 20 days and it was passed.

The Patriot Act is huge and I remember someone asking a Justice Department official how did they write such a large statute so quickly, and of course the answer was that it has been sitting in the drawers of the Justice Department for the last 20 years waiting for the event where they would pull it out.

Of course, the Patriot Act is filled with all sorts of insanity about changing the way civil rights are protected, or not protected in this instance. So I was having dinner with Richard Clarke and I asked him if there is an equivalent, is there an i-Patriot Act just sitting waiting for some substantial event as an excuse to radically change the way the internet works. He said “of course there is”.

Unglaublich? Nein. Hier das ganze als Video:

Alex Jones berichtete in seiner heutigen Show auch darüber. Ein Audio-Mitschnitt findet sich hier:

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Nachtrag vom 6. August *)

Auch Fortune berichtet darüber.

[via Infowars.net]