Senate Bill Would Give President Obama Authority to Pull the Plug on Your Internet

[Panameno718]

CNET News has obtained a summary of a proposal from Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) that would create an Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, part of the Executive Office of the President. That office would receive the power to disconnect, if it believes they're at risk of a cyberattack, "critical" computer networks from the Internet.

“I regard this as a profoundly and deeply troubling problem to which we are not paying much attention," Rockefeller said at a hearing, referring to cybersecurity.

Senate bill 773 (The Cybersecurity Act of 2009) is causing a flurry of opposition from groups like Campaign for Liberty, which has sent out letters to their members appealing for them to take action against passage of this bill, stating:

“If the ‘Internet Takeover Bill’ passes, Barack Obama can silence his dissenters directly -- by ordering a shutdown of all Americans’ access to the Internet. But that’s not all. Even outside of periods of White House-declared ‘emergency,’ this bill mandates that private-sector networks only be managed by government-licensed cybersecurity professionals.”



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[Panameno718]

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If this bill passes it will make Obama a dictator of the internet!!!

 

[lerri]

Re: Senate Bill Would Give President Obama Authority to Pull the Plug on Your Interne

SEEM'S LIKE WE KEEP MOVING IN STEP'S CLOSER AND CLOSER TO DICTATORSHIP.

 

[Cruise]

Re: Senate Bill Would Give President Obama Authority to Pull the Plug on Your Interne

SEEM'S LIKE WE KEEP MOVING IN STEP'S CLOSER AND CLOSER TO DICTATORSHIP.

If the people want it (whether by apathy or action), that is precisely what they will get.

 

[thoughtone]

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Sorry QueEx, I know it's a repost, but the right wing, conspiracy theorist lemmings need reminding!

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[Mrfreddygoodbud]

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notice a rockefeller innvolved in this shit, they what the fuck do they fear..

a fuckin font, riding a plane into a building...

they mad because the people are getting too much info...

we need to start a peoples network fuck the gubment.....

I would donate twenty bucks a year to keep the govt the fuk out of our lives, we finally have something we have control over what we view...

and its driving the parasitic elite nuts...

they cant say anything they want now and not expect it to be debunked!!

Peoples internet yall, we need to get on that, before its too late...

sheeet we can lay down our own fiber optics.

its all possible

oh and this is NOT about Obama....

like he gives a fuck..

 

[Lamarr]

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Thought with the OopsCheck

 

[QueEx]

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[Lamarr]

Re: Senate Bill Would Give President Obama Authority to Pull the Plug on Your Interne

Obama Internet Kill Switch Plan Approved By US Senate

A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack.

Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the charges that the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act gives the president an Internet "kill switch." Instead, the bill puts limits on the powers the president already has to cause "the closing of any facility or stations for wire communication" in a time of war, as described in the Communications Act of 1934, they said in a breakdown of the bill published on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee website.

The committee unanimously approved an amended version of the legislation by voice vote Thursday, a committee spokeswoman said. The bill next moves to the Senate floor for a vote, which has not yet been scheduled.

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