The Security Blog

In an apparent show of support out of the US Legislative Branch, and a show of competition to George Lucas in number of sequels (of my blog), Jedi Senators Joe Lieberman, John McCain and Lindsey Graham (shown below, on Tattoine), announced a new bill, to be introduced after the July 4 recess, aimed at providing and funding support for the Iranian cyberwarriors.

Announcing that they see the Iranian regime using Cyber warfare technologies, or in their words

Over the last two weeks, the Iranian regime has worked aggressively to stop its citizens from getting uncensored information about what is happening inside their country, and to prevent them from exercising their fundamental rights to free speech and free assembly online. The Iranian regime continues to jam satellite and radio broadcasts, disrupt cell phone service, monitor Internet use, and block websites.

I applaud their understanding of the situation. As a member of the Freebird project, it is nice to have official US Government support, both financial and moral (and presumably legal), to efforts that allow the Iranian people to find their voice.   

This is, in fact, operating a mini-Voice-of-America service – backwards.  As the importance of these ways of communication becomes more and more understood and recognized, the value of assisting repressed people around the world share their plights  will be more praised.  

This will make situations such as the massacre in Rwanda or Mass-rapes in the former Yugoslavia less likely to happen, more reading and quickly able to be addressed, and faster to resolve in a humane and democratic way.

One of the most important results from "the Twitter Revolution" we already have is the great benefit of having hundreds, and hundreds of thousands "on ramps" to the Information Superhighway that the Internet is and that the western world is plugged into.

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