Don’t let the cyber monsters of the government threaten your free speech!

Happy October everyone and welcome to National Cybersecurity Awareness month. This year’s theme is Own it, Secure, it, Protect it. NCSAM is in its 16th year and is supported by US-DHS, the National Cybersecurity Alliance, multiple state and local governments and the private sector. My company Iuvare Cyber, which supports this podcast is a NCSAM Champion for the second year in a row. This whole month is meant to raise awareness of the importance of cybersecurity. I will talk a bit more about NCSAM after bit.

There were some troubling stories that I came across this past week from the US and from the EU about government bodies and individuals in government pushing social medial companies specifically Facebook and Twitter to delete “offense” posts about government officials and political parties to suspend a political rivals account. This is a dangerous and slippery slope that we are facing. In my opinion it is a dangerous if not more dangerous than what the democrats are accusing Trump of doing with the Ukraine’s.

 

[Links]

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/464161-top-eu-court-rules-that-facebook-can-be-forced-to-remove-some-material

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/463952-harris-presses-twitter-to-do-something-over-trumps-coup-tweet

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/464006-harris-spokesman-points-to-gabbard-pushback-on-call-to-suspend-trump-on

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/463856-dnc-accuses-facebook-of-allowing-trump-to-mislead-american-people

 

NCSAM Links

https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/themes/

https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/get-involved/

https://niccs.us-cert.gov/national-cybersecurity-awareness-month-2019

https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/about-ncsam/