Jay Rockefeller quote Internet shouldn't have been invented

Rockefeller: Internet is "Number One National Hazard"

According to the great-grandson John D. Rockefeller, nephew of banker David Rockefeller, and former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller the internet represents a serious threat to national security. Rockefeller is not alone in this assessment. His belief that the internet is the "number one national hazard" to national security is shared by the former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and Obama's current director Admiral Dennis C. Blair.

"It really almost makes you ask the question would it have been better if we had never invented the internet," Rockefeller mused during the confirmation hearing of Gary Locke (see video), Obama's choice for Commerce Secretary. He then cites a dubious figure of three million cyber "attacks" launched against the Department of Defense every day. "Everybody is attacked, anybody can do it. People say, well it's China and Russia, but there could be some kid in Latvia doing the same thing."
Jay Rockefeller's comments reveal an astounding degree of ignorance - or if not ignorance, outright propaganda. Since the September 11, 2001, attacks the government has cranked up the fear quotient in regard to cyber attacks and so-called cyber terrorism, a virtually non-existent threat except in the minds security experts and politicians. In the years since the attacks, not one real instance of real cyberterrorism has been recorded.
"Cyberattacks on critical components of the national infrastructure are not uncommon, but they have not been conducted by terrorists and have not sought to inflict the kind of damage that would qualify as cyberterrorism," writes Gabriel Weimann, author of Terror on the Internet. "Nuclear weapons and other sensitive military systems, as well as the computer systems of the CIA and FBI, are 'air-gapped,' making them inaccessible to outside hackers. Systems in the private sector tend to be less well protected, but they are far from defenseless, and nightmarish tales of their vulnerability tend to be largely apocryphal."


"Psychological, political, and economic forces have combined to promote the fear of cyberterrorism," Weimann continues. "From a psychological perspective, two of the greatest fears of modern time are combined in the term 'cyberterrorism.' The fear of random, violent victimization blends well with the distrust and outright fear of computer technology."
"The sky is not falling, and cyber-weapons seem to be of limited value in attacking national power or intimidating citizens," notes James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Such a threat is overblown, Lewis explains. He notes that "a brief review suggests that while many computer networks remain very vulnerable to attack, few critical infrastructures are equally vulnerable." In other words, Rockefeller's example of a kid in Latvia with a laptop posing a serious "hazard" to national security is little more than sensationalistic propaganda.
So-called cyber terrorists are far less of a threat than government. China and Australia have recently imposed draconian censorship on internet freedom. Brazil, Denmark, Canada, Finland, Ireland , Italy, Israel, the United Kingdom, the United States, and many other countries also impose nominal censorship on internet freedom. Urgent calls to restrict the medium in various ways through legislation and government action have increased over the last few years (for more detail, see Internet Censorship: A Comparative Study).
However, the real threat to internet freedom is currently posed by IT and ISP corporations, not the government.


As Alex Jones explained last June, large corporate ISPs are now in the process of imposing bandwidth caps and routing traffic over their networks and blocking certain targeted websites. For instance, in 2005 AOL Time-Warner was caught blocking access to all of Jones' flagship websites across the entire United States. Other instances of outright censorship include the UK ISP Tiscali blocking subscribers from reaching material on the 7/7 London bombings and Google's continued and habitual censorship of 9/11 material and Alex Jones' films on the ever-popular YouTube. There are many other instances as well.

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[DanKGlassworksdotcom]

Possibly the worst last name in history Rockefeller=Tyrant at birth..

[HolisticPlantHealth]

we need to act to shut down one thing, rockefeller and anyone who thinks like him .

[urbevrankar]

Religion shouldn't have been invented !!!!!

[treray2]

they are scared of losing power!!!!

[stophypocrisy11]

What are they afraid of? I think they know their own crime against the people of the world are being discovered everyday and IF they could kill the internet they would inslave the good people and keep in charge the real bad actors.

[MegaMandrake99]

cool music at the end. what is it?

[xwinglover]

Hey Rockefeller!! How's it hanging? Short and shrivelled I imagine.

Let's recap. You royally fucked up that house of cards that you call your banking system, you play chess with peoples lives with your greed creating war, poverty, and planned acts of terror to instil more draconian laws, make more money and try and enslave modern life

Your problem is that the sheep aren't as dumb as you are trying to make us become.

So now the Internet is on the agenda - the beacon of truth that scares fuc

[Ohrela]

@MrUFOdisclosure just wait , thats all your going to say? Of course that's all your going to say because there is no solid evidence for the claim that you made. If you don't know why you believe something how can you believe it?

[Ohrela]

@MrUFOdisclosure Ok what information beyong william coopers book do you have to support your claims? Instead of trying to find your own truth, have you considered researching alturnatives, because I believe that you really don't have a leg to stand on.

[Ohrela]

@MrUFOdisclosure why do you concern yourself with alien ufo cover up, when there are private banks that are about to criple this economy, propaganda everywhere you look, mass amounts of people starving, woman and children being murdered across the world in the name of counter terroism, all of our rights being taken from us in the US, and the most important thing you have time to do is worry about alien cover ups? I do support that their days are numbered and that The One God, will triumph.

[burkaaninjsh]

Latvian kids are nice. lol he has no idea what he's talking about.

[savvy777333]

He feels threatened, now that the public can research on the Internet on his bullshit!!! Yes the Internet is a no BULLSHIT zone!,,,,,