Last April, Sen. Jay Rockefeller [D, WV], the Chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, introduced the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 to his committee. The goal of the bill was to develop a public-private plan for strengthening national security in the case of internet-based attacks. But it stalled almost immediately because of a controversial provision that would have give the President unilateral authority to declare a cybersecurity emergency and then shut down or limit access to parts of the internet without any oversight or explanation.Gee, unilateral authority to shut down the single biggest source of information in the US? Why would anyone have a problem with that? Now, replace "Øbama" with "Bush" and just imagine the howls of outrage from the media. Remember, these are the same jackals that equated Bush authorizing the monitoring of calls to known terrorists with Gestapo tactics....
Read the whole thing - if it doesn't chill your blood, I don't want to know you.
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Right...... Good Luck with that.
The whole point of the design of the distributed network that is "The InterTubes" is that big pieces of the network can be destroyed / blownup / missing etc and it still functions.
Fortunatly, there is NO "on / off"
switch for them to turn off or control.
....and they should know that.
Congress told DARPA they wanted a "Failsafe Communication System"....and DARPA delivered just that. They forgot to tell DARPA that they might want to shut it off.
Just another clueless POL trying to get a headline with equally clueless Mainstream media reporters.
notDilbert-
I remember once, about 16 years ago, after HillaryCare got flushed down the toilet, that a few of the more cocky "Class of 94" Republicans guffawed at the Democrats' attempt to takeover the medical industry in this country, and that "it could never happen"...
There are some people who want power more than others want freedom. They will find away to separate you (er, not you per se) from the internet. Just ask the revolutionaries in Iran.
Methinks they're scared of the right-wing bloggers...
Anything Olympia Snowe helps introduce I'm automatically suspicious of.
In this case, my first thought is not that 0bama would use it for, y'know, an ATTACK, but that it's vague enough that he could declare a "cyber-emergency" (whatever THAT is) whenever he wants and shut down major email providers, thus cutting communications off between, say, Tea Partiers, for example.
Time to resume studying for my Ham license again...
Word verification: munatins. Apparently, Blogspot doesn't know how to spell "munitions".
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