Obama's Internet Policy

The editorial article I chose to critique comes from The Washington Post and is over Obamas internet policy. This policy is supposed to make the internet safer by monitoring internet usage. This article is very against this policy and it seems to also be very against Obama himself. I feel like this article is focused mainly towards the “internet generations” (16-30 years old) because the main issue of this article is about the internet, which I know a lot of people cannot live without.  This article talks of how this policy is just one of many ways that Obama and his team have taken away the rights of privacy for American citizens and even describes Obama as being an “internet cop, enforcing what once was a voluntary code of conduct.” The author describes the Obama administration as being anything but concerned for citizens privacy since apparently the Transportation Security Administration have photographed millions of passengers in the nude, including small children. I am not sure how accurate that is. If it is accurate, then that scares me a lot. How is that legal? Small children? I can understand searching someone, or x-ray images of their shoes, etc, but what does a nude photograph do? I do not see how something like that can go unnoticed. The article also talks about how Obamacare is sticking their supervising hands into people’s medical records by taking a failed $20 million British effort and trying it out on their own. The British government gave up on it because, “There can be no confidence that the programme has delivered or can be delivered as originally conceived.” This quote means that the x-rays or medical records that would be sent electronically are not the same quality as in their original form. I can understand how this sounds like a good idea, but it also scares me a little to have all the records on a computer. It has been proven over and over again that computer are not safe. Even the most secured can be tapped by hackers. What could people do with medical records? My concerns are not for average citizens but for celebrities or political figures that are under almost constant fear of attack. I am not completely confident that these records could ever be entirely safe. And to me, that’s not something an American citizen should be afraid of. What happened to land of the free? Is it now the land of the free...... when the government decides to let you?

You can find the article Here