ATTEMPTS TO CONTROL/RESTRICT/MONITOR THE INTERNET

START = 05-30-2006  /  FINISH = ???

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THE INTERNET
NSA Programs
  --  ECHELON
  --  Swift Monitoring
  --  Groundbreaker


THE INTERNET

FCC : Public be Dammed
US: The Net Effect of Neutrality

Ill effects of a gated cyber world
Don't undercut Internet access
Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End
AT&T Sued Over NSA Eavesdropping
NSA Spying Complaint filed with Maine Public Utility
MoveOn.org's Civic Action to save the Internet
A.C.U.L's Don't Spy on Me
EFF's Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T for Collaboration with Illegal Domestic Spying Program
EFF's related links
Documents Detail AT&T-NSA Web Surveillance Claim 
Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet
Save the Internet dot Com
CDD - Center for Digital Democracy
If we build it they will come: It's time to own our own last mile

Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End

Propaganda:  "Five companies control - 90 percent of what we read, see and hear"
Opponents Organize Resistance Against Fcc Rule Changes That Will Strengthen Media Monopolies
On the verge of victory - Net neutrality uprising shows power of Internet as democratizing force
A New Bargain: YouTube Politics
Internet Freedom Fighters to Take Command in Congress
Threats To Internet Freedom All Too Real
RIAA Legal Ruling Could Shut Down The Internet
RIAA wants the Internet shut down
Stop AT&T Merger which Threatens our Internet Access
Save the Internet - YouTube video  
Net Neutrality — A Cosmic Battle for Democracy
Huge Victory for Real People as Telco Bill Dies
The Right To Communicate
AT&T Concession Thoroughly Debunks Key Anti-Net Neutrality Myth
Internet Doomsday Creeps Closer
Suppressing Free Speech with Market Power
Maine shows Internet resolve
Bush Official in ‘Shouting Match’ with Open Access Supporters
AT&T Will Suspend Accounts of those who talk badly of it     
Richard Clarke Former Security Czar Calls For Closed Internet
FCC won't probe disclosure of phone records
Bloggers beware when you criticize the rich and powerful
Dead Republic Blues: Bush Illegal Wiretapping Scheme Gets Darker and Dirtier
The Beltway Establishment's contempt for the rule of law
Bush and the Phone Companies: Partners in Crime
Free speech could lead to online disconnect
Verizon provided data to Feds 720 times without court order or determining its legality
For one company, FISA wiretaps carry a $1K pricetag
Senate and Neocons Agree to Carve Up Bill of Rights
Democrats Caving To Bush: Agree On Terms of Spying Bill
Comcast Accused Of Setting Precedent To Scrap Net Neutrality
Senator Denies AT&T, Verizon Cash Bought Spying Immunity Vote
Scott Stroud: AT&T and others suddenly giving to key Democratic senator
Senators want probe on content blocking
FCC Pressed to Stop Comcast’s Internet Blocking
Wiretapping at Its Worst
AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein to Senate: "they’re doing a huge, massive domestic dragnet on everybody in the United States"
Feinstein backs legal immunity for telecom firms in wiretap cases
Judiciary Committee strips telecom immunity from FISA bill.
Stopping the FCC from Consolidating Media Ownership
Bush administration forced to turn over spying documents by Friday
Harry Reid's FISA games
Activists see Senate Dems backing down to Bush, ready to give immunity to phone companies
Network Neutrality, Freedom of Expression at Risk
AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter
The Internet must die
US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search
Lawbreaking telecoms still conniving to obtain immunity from Congress
Government’s Proposed Cyber Security Policy Would Police All Internet Activity
Spychief Plan To Police Internet Is Likely Tied To S 1959, Thought Crime Prevention Bill
Pentagon: The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy "weapons system".
Abracadabra! Bush Makes Privacy Board Vanish
Sen. Rockefeller Lets Slip the Spying Truth: Drift Nets To Be Legalized
Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms
The WSJ editorial page lies about our surveillance laws
Telecom immunity: how stupid do you think we are?
Senate Votes to Give Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms
US Supreme Court refuses to hear case against warrantless wiretapping
Net Neutrality Is a Civil Rights Issue
Internet Bill a Blow to the Gatekeepers
Army Blocks Public's Access to Documents in Web-Based Library
Comcast blocks public from FCC hearing
Granting Immunity Rewards Lawlessness
Immune to Reality: Why is telecom immunity so important to Bush?
Wiretapping focus shifts to email, as firms move data overseas
Comcast in Hot Water with FCC: Commission Mulls Taking Action Against Cable Giant for Policing Net Traffic
Fight The Net
Wiretapping's true danger
The woman who nearly stopped the war
Net Neutrality’s Quiet Crusader
Comcast to Stop Slowing Peer-to-Peer Traffic
EXCLUSIVE...Bush's Law: Eric Lichtblau on Exposing the NSA's Warrantless Wiretapping Program
Paul Lectures Bernanke: U.S. Moving Towards Fascism
Documents show Pentagon now using FBI to spy on Americans
FBI Data Transfers Via Telecoms Questioned
FBI Has Spy Program Tracking IM, Emails, and Cell Phones     
Telecom Whistleblower Discovers Circuit that Allows Access to All Systems on Wireless Carrier—Phone Calls, Text Messages, Emails and More
Net Neutrality
News 4 Investigates: Illegal internet spying - video
Pentagon Secretly Goes To War With The Internet
Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers
New Legislation and Debate on Net Neutrality
Rupert Murdoch Firm Goes on Trial for Alleged Tech Sabotage
Gov't Secrecy and the Mysterious Cyber Initative
Telecom Companies in Cahoots with Illegal Bush Administration Surveillance Programs
Comcast Is Hiring an Internet Snoop for the Fed
Spying Telecoms Receive Billions in Government Contracts
Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use
To fight future cyberbattles, Air Force recruiting part-time geeks
Attention Geeks and Hackers - Uncle Sam's Cyber Force Wants You!
[UK] ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
Biden blasts McCain after warrantless-wiretap flip-flop
French Government decides to censor the Internet
Corporations Plan To Pull Plug On The Free Internet
Accelerating the Great Broadband Migration
Immunity to Telecoms for illegally Spying on Americans
AP Goes After Bloggers Under DMCA
Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic
Blogger arrests hit record high
Air Force Spreads Cyber Command to All 50 States - contains article list 
The political establishment and telecom immunity -- why it matters
Wiretapping's true danger - History says we should worry less about privacy and more about political spying.
Commentary: How dare they rip the Fourth Amendment?
Obama Tries and Fails to Put Out the FISA Fire in His Own House
FISA ‘compromise’ completes transformation of US into full police state
Internet Users Stop Comcast, Net Neutrality Win on the Horizon
Fighting the Unconstitutional Spying Law
AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates 'Infrastructure for a Police State'
Air Force Cyber Command: Building the Infrastructure for High-Tech War Crimes
Verizon Refuses Phone Records Query
Comcast Unleashes the Lapdogs
Get Outraged And Get Active About Internet Censorship
Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act
Air Force Suspends Controversial Cyber Command
Israel isn’t the Only One Ramping Up Their Blogger PR Campaign
Downvote Bots Fight Propaganda War
Sen. Diane Feinstein's Net Neutrality Killer
Internet Attack Propaganda Increases as Cyber Bill Approaches - Alt
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet - Alt  - Alt
Dictator Obama – The Worst Is Yet To Come - Alt
Obama Administration Seeks "Emergency Control" of the Internet - Alt
Time Magazine Pushes Draconian Internet Licensing Plan
Google links up with US spy-master to thwart threats to cyberspace - Alt
The Rising Tide of Internet Censorhsip - Alt - Alt - Alt
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited - Alt - Alt
Alex Jones On Russia Today – Fighting Internet Takeover By Pentagon, NSA - video - (RTYuTb - 4m56s - 02/05/10)
Webster Tarpley On The Draconian Internet Takeover - video - (RT-YuTb - 4 min 37 sec -  February 05, 2010)
How Corporate Dollars Dominate the Black and Latino Conversation on Network Neutrality
Frightening Taste Of Internet Censorship As Major Free Speech Websites Blocked - Alt
Control freaks want web licences to end bloggers' anonymity – be very afraid - Alt
Cyberwar Scam Designed to Destroy Open Internet - Alt - contains videos
What the cyberecurity bill is really about
Pentagon Targets WikiLeaks - Alt
Pentagon's Cyber Command: Civilian Infrastructure a "Legitimate" Target - Alt - Alt
Draft of Secretive International Copyright Treaty Leaked -- Confirms Fears About Internet Freedom - Alt
Cyberwar and Repression: Corporatist Synergy Made in Hell - Alt - Alt - Alt
Calls Increase for Government to Regulate Internet Journalists and Bloggers - Alt
Calls Increase for Government to Regulate Internet Journalists and Bloggers - Alt
Alex Covers More Anti Free Speech Attacks from Our Govt Part I  - video
Alex Covers More Anti Free Speech Attacks from Our Govt Part II - video
FCC Talks Up Sovietization of Media - Alt
"74 Democrats sold you out to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast"
Obama’s Internet Wiretap Move: Just One Small Facet Of Total Domination Project

NSA Programs

  --  ECHELON - NSA

ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network - database - article list
Information on NSA's Echelon Program - database
P172 POLITICS OF THE INTERNET: TABLE OF LINKS - database
The NSA's ECHELON System - database - article list
Echelon - sourcewatch
Jason Leopold/Articles - sourcewatch
Echelon - wikipedia
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Echelon - nsa watch
National Colloquium for Information System Security Education - database
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS ASSESSMENT - STOA presentation & analysis
Secrets R US
As someone working on an Echelon story asked elsewhere, just what strength of crypto can NSA crack these days.
Jason Leopold | The NSA Spy Engine: Echelon
GLOBAL INTERNET LIBERTY CAMPAIGN PRIVACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
NSA uses ECHELON against US citizens
Europeans question NSA "Echelon" network [news]
On A Parent's Death And Minding Your Tongue In The U.S.A.

  --  Groundbreaker - NSA

What Nacchio Tells Us about the NSA
Early June, 2006: Lawsuit Alleges Constitutional Violations by NSA and Telecom Firms - timeline

  --  Swift Monitoring

George W. Bush's bank records spying - sourcewatch
Belgium Rules Sifting of Bank Data Illegal
European Officials Declare U.S. Financial Spying Dragnet Illegal
Secret US program broke law, Belgium says
Secret terrorist probe not so secret – or useful, insiders say - Alt