Here comes the Killswitch! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!

[@lpha]

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJHkHFV45zE[/YT]


maybe it's honest and to prevent crime... but lets be real shall we. it's a killswitch. you would have to be naive to think something like this will not be abused by the carriers or the govt or what have you. so when one of those internet uprisings happen and people are relying on twitter and facebook to orchestrate their protests... *click* communications black out? it seems dystopian sure, and this may in fact not be designed for an evil purpose, but i am old enough and wise enough to think differently. it's also like a revenge policy, they take your phone, you can get revenge... that's rather nasty too, we shouldn't teach our children that, forgiveness is the moral high road, and more virtuous, what goes around comes around, eh? big wireless and big government are not nice people, why would they all of sudden care now about our well being? First it was Carrier IQ spyware and now this? You might want to check your calender, because I think it's 1984. this is sketchy.

i am not some paranoid freak, i wish for logic and reason to be the core of any reply to this post.

 

[3rdpig]

If you don't think the US government already had the ability to shut down cell communication before now you've been living in a fantasy land.

 

[@lpha]

i can shut down cell communication, i just need to run my car into the tower that houses the transceivers. that's not my point. of course the govt has the "ability" as well... but that doesn't make it all to legal. there are many restrictions in place that prevent governmental interference of national and global telecommunications. they as of now, monitor all telecommunications, but shutting them down is something they cannot do without presidential or gubernatorial approval, as something this authoritarian that will undermine the republic and very nature of the country is reserved for the delegated legislation of an executive order. lastly, this isn't about turning off the signals from the towers, this is about them specifically targeting individual devices, thus fundamentally isolating only the phones of people that are deemed to be breaking the "law". my main argument is to point out that when did police powers be issued to wireless carriers? what sheriff made att, verizon, t-mobile, or sprint a deputy? get it? when did corporations become law enforcement agencies? as for the fantasy land you speak of, allow me to welcome you to Oceania, I hear chocolate rations are being raised to 20 grams a week and that our forces are making great leaps and strides on the front.