Yes but then we'll need to buy a new secure network, and then we'll have three. That's good for profit, right?

Let me edit your statement to make it more general but still true:

This is what happens when politicians who know nothing _______________________________ make ________________ decisions.
OR
This is what happens when politicians _______________ _______________________________ make ________________ decisions.
Here we have a system which predates the horseless carriage, or that newfangled aero-plane. I even hear they're developing this new kind of machine called a telly-phone which can transmit ones voice across a whole continent.

Have you not considered that this exactly is the plan?

Aside from all the comments above regarding why it will not work and what difficulties can and will arise, compromising its so-called security, could this lead us to internet based elections and discussions of a political nature? Might we be permitted to have government level discussions from our homes over our secure access tokens to not only vote but to eliminate the need for representation at all? As a fictional example I cite the wonder work by Orson Scott Card entitled Ender's Game (If you haven't read it, quit slashdot forever) Where political discussions take place on "adult" nets requiring real name credentials, with no throw-away identities. For examples of how it won't work, due to loopholes and the like, I cite the same work of fiction in which two children use their father's credentials to write motivating columns for syndicated newspapers, obtain aliases to the secure nets as payments for their work, and set about taking over the world through the ideas they foster into the minds of the people. Time will tell. But I think the world as it is does not want to see an absolution of representation, nor the taxation that goes along with it.

See what happens when you outsource critical tasks to foreign nations with no knowledge of the consequences of their mistakes?
Or wait, maybe the problem is that the workers who do this are all unionized and don't care about their mistakes because of their protectionism and entitlement mentalities?
In all seriousness, shouldn't this part of the blackbox and its functionality be tested every time the plane lands/takes off? And also, shouldn't the blackbox be constructed in such a way that would prevent the "memory part" from just up and going missing? Otherwise, why the fuck do we have blackboxes? Why even have an NTSA or equivalent for your politically ambiguous region? Without data recorders that do their job, those boys are just working on a big jigsaw puzzle.

On another note, why is there only one such recorder? Why is there only one "memory part"? Why aren't there three, with one that floats and is ejected as soon as any kind of serious impact is detected? iirc they already have locators on them. Why has this taken so long to find? What are we doing wrong? Or has searching for flight data recorders and recreating horrible accidents become yet another make-work job to keep the economy artificially inflated?

...someone who knows the the fuck they are doing in a regulatory position for the internet.

But what about our post-apocalyptic ancestors who break into an abandoned house's play room, rifle through the shelves of board games to find the chemistry set, unopened due to video games, in order to go all MacGuyver on those zombie's asses, only to find: no chemicals. What the hell is a chemistry set with no chemicals? Is it like "batteries sold separately"?
We need to think of the future.

Let's not forget the story posted on slashdot last week about a guy who was arrested and all his computers searched because someone used his wifi to download CP.
"M'Lord.... M'Lord. We've found a witch!...
May we burn her?"

The best source for child pornography out there is the FBI's confiscation archives. Why do you think all the agents are so interested in working those kinds of cases?

It's understandable really. I'm sure if we had some 13 year old kids hack in and search the history/bookmarks of the FBI's top directors we would find no shopping or news links, but only sites about big breasts and so forth. It would be interesting to run the exact flavors of porn they look up through their own psychological profiler and see what it spits out! Hey someone mail these guys some links about online banking or cybershopping. Maybe a few news sites from non-censor-approved organizations.
No wait. On second thought don't. They'll just shut them down.

Well, with major portions of North America, Asia, and Europe all trying to control the networks within their borders, all I can say in response is thats what happens when you declare cyberspace independent of so much political bullshit without the ability to enforce it. More Tunnels! I shamelessly promote the book "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" or maybe it's "The Day.." by Corry Doctorow which can be downloaded for free at his site craphoud.com and I humbly encourage everyone to refrain from violence in the global struggle for such a fundamental right as freedom of information, taking place even inside borders which have declared such a right as granted. It has begun.