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26th November 2014, 01:50 PM
The Plebs Are Revolting – Utah Bill to Shut Off Water to the NSA Moves Forward Posted on November 26, 2014 (http://www.silverdoctors.com/the-plebs-are-revolting-utah-bill-to-shut-off-water-to-the-nsa-moves-forward/) by The Doc (http://www.silverdoctors.com/author/the-doc/)
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Lawmakers are considering a bill that would shut off the water spigot to the massive data center operated by the National Security Agency in Bluffdale, Utah.
The legislation, proposed by Utah lawmaker Marc Roberts, is due to go to the floor of the Utah House of Representatives early next year, but it was debated in a Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee meeting on Wednesday. The bill, H.B. 161 (http://le.utah.gov/%7E2014/bills/static/HB0161.html), directs municipalities like Bluffdale to “refuse support to any federal agency which collects electronic data within this state.”
Submitted by Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg (http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/11/21/the-plebs-are-revolting-utah-bill-to-shut-off-water-to-the-nsa-moves-forward/):
http://www.silverdoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NSA.jpg (http://www.silverdoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NSA.jpg)
In the wake of the failure of the U.S. Senate to move forward on the USA Freedom Act, many activists and civil liberties advocates have come to the conclusion that we can’t rely on the feds to do anything decent on the subject. One of the proposed grassroots ways to fight back (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/19/irrelevance-u-s-congress-stopping-nsas-mass-surveillance/) has been an emphasis on increased use of encryption (recall my pre-Snowden era post, Bitcoin and Kim Dotcom: Why it’s Time to “Encrypt Everything” (http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/03/12/bitcoin-and-kim-dotcom-why-its-time-to-encrypt-everything/)). Another obvious solution is for people to revolt at the local level. It appears that the citizens of Utah are doing just that.
Wired reports (http://www.wired.com/2014/11/utah-considers-cutting-water-nsas-monster-data-center/?mbid=social_twitter) that:
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would shut off the water spigot to the massive data center operated by the National Security Agency in Bluffdale, Utah.
The legislation, proposed by Utah lawmaker Marc Roberts, is due to go to the floor of the Utah House of Representatives early next year, but it was debated in a Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee meeting on Wednesday. The bill, H.B. 161 (http://le.utah.gov/%7E2014/bills/static/HB0161.html), directs municipalities like Bluffdale to “refuse support to any federal agency which collects electronic data within this state.”
The NSA brought its Bluffdale data center online about a year ago, taking advantage Utah’s cheap power and a cut-rate deal for millions of gallons of local water, used to cool the 1-million-square-foot building’s servers. Roberts’ bill, however, would prohibit the NSA from negotiating new water deals when its current Bluffdale agreement runs out in 2021.
“I just don’t want to subsidize what they’re doing on the back of our citizens,” Carlisle quotes Republican Representative Roger Barrus as saying (http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/1845843-155/data-utah-bill-nsa-center-committee?fullpage=1) during the meeting.
Utah has a long history of disputes with the federal government, but this is the first time Carlisle remembers anyone proposing to cut off water to a federal agency. “I think it’s representative of an attitude change in Utah that the bill is even being discussed,” he says.
Now if we could just get some more attitudes to change across the land we might get some freedom back.
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
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Lawmakers are considering a bill that would shut off the water spigot to the massive data center operated by the National Security Agency in Bluffdale, Utah.
The legislation, proposed by Utah lawmaker Marc Roberts, is due to go to the floor of the Utah House of Representatives early next year, but it was debated in a Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee meeting on Wednesday. The bill, H.B. 161 (http://le.utah.gov/%7E2014/bills/static/HB0161.html), directs municipalities like Bluffdale to “refuse support to any federal agency which collects electronic data within this state.”
Submitted by Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg (http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/11/21/the-plebs-are-revolting-utah-bill-to-shut-off-water-to-the-nsa-moves-forward/):
http://www.silverdoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NSA.jpg (http://www.silverdoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NSA.jpg)
In the wake of the failure of the U.S. Senate to move forward on the USA Freedom Act, many activists and civil liberties advocates have come to the conclusion that we can’t rely on the feds to do anything decent on the subject. One of the proposed grassroots ways to fight back (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/19/irrelevance-u-s-congress-stopping-nsas-mass-surveillance/) has been an emphasis on increased use of encryption (recall my pre-Snowden era post, Bitcoin and Kim Dotcom: Why it’s Time to “Encrypt Everything” (http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/03/12/bitcoin-and-kim-dotcom-why-its-time-to-encrypt-everything/)). Another obvious solution is for people to revolt at the local level. It appears that the citizens of Utah are doing just that.
Wired reports (http://www.wired.com/2014/11/utah-considers-cutting-water-nsas-monster-data-center/?mbid=social_twitter) that:
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would shut off the water spigot to the massive data center operated by the National Security Agency in Bluffdale, Utah.
The legislation, proposed by Utah lawmaker Marc Roberts, is due to go to the floor of the Utah House of Representatives early next year, but it was debated in a Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee meeting on Wednesday. The bill, H.B. 161 (http://le.utah.gov/%7E2014/bills/static/HB0161.html), directs municipalities like Bluffdale to “refuse support to any federal agency which collects electronic data within this state.”
The NSA brought its Bluffdale data center online about a year ago, taking advantage Utah’s cheap power and a cut-rate deal for millions of gallons of local water, used to cool the 1-million-square-foot building’s servers. Roberts’ bill, however, would prohibit the NSA from negotiating new water deals when its current Bluffdale agreement runs out in 2021.
“I just don’t want to subsidize what they’re doing on the back of our citizens,” Carlisle quotes Republican Representative Roger Barrus as saying (http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/1845843-155/data-utah-bill-nsa-center-committee?fullpage=1) during the meeting.
Utah has a long history of disputes with the federal government, but this is the first time Carlisle remembers anyone proposing to cut off water to a federal agency. “I think it’s representative of an attitude change in Utah that the bill is even being discussed,” he says.
Now if we could just get some more attitudes to change across the land we might get some freedom back.
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
http://www.silverdoctors.com/the-plebs-are-revolting-utah-bill-to-shut-off-water-to-the-nsa-moves-forward/