Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
An Internet Kill Switch is an Economy Kill Switch.
Bipartisan my ass, she's a full fledged socialist/marxist that sides with the enemy every time!
Such tyranny! I believe these are the end times. In the old days, people fled from tyranny to the new continent. Where to now?
This doesn’t have a prayer - there’s no way such legislature would make it through the House - especially now.
This would be tantamount to giving the president the power to confiscate all guns.
Damn RINO!!
RINOs are worse than Dims
COMPLETELY, AND EMPHATICALLY, UNCONSTITUTIONAL! This president has assumed more power than any previous president! The president should not even have the power to appoint members to the SCOTUS. And these appointments should not be lifetime. Where did the righteous power of the people go? GROW TEA PARTY!
They just keep getting bolder, huh?
The bill on its face is Unconstitutional since regulating communications is not an enumerated power granted to Congress in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution!!!
Our leadership class is frightened of what is out here. They know we despise them. By such legislation they want to be able to control communications when all hell breaks loose against their governmental malpractice. The Egyptian government response with regard to the internet is evidence of what the leadership class plans as a last ditch effort to maintain power.
I sure hope this doesn’t even come up for a vote in the House.
Yesterday, I made the decision to get into HAM radio.
“The bipartisan bill is sponsored by Maine Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.”
That single sentence, all by itself, makes me want to puke.
Unless the Egyptian government kills all of the phone lines as well, you might remember one means of getting online that broadband has since relegated to obsolescence: dial-up. While there's no Egyptian ISP that will allow internet access to Egyptian citizens, other countries will, meaning any Egyptian citizen with long-distance calling capabilities can break out their old school 56k modem and dial-up an ISP in another country. (Sure it's going to be a slow connection, but you can survive.)
Several ISPs—such as Budget DialUp—offer dial-up numbers all over the globe. Some ISPs in other countries are offering free access to Egyptians specifically in response to the Egyptian government's actions. According to twitter user @ioerror, French ISP FDN is one of them:
Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN)#egypt #jan25
Others report that even DSL is still a possibility:
@SultanAlQassemi DIAL-UP ISP IS WORKING. DSL still working#Egypt,Try their Dial up numbers (0777 7770),(0777 7000) SPREAD THE WORD #jan25
While dial-up isn't an ideal means of getting online for most of us, it's still a perfectly effective means of connecting when your government shuts down the internet. And until the Egyptian government shuts down all landline access—another huge step up the censorship ladder—there's not much they can do to completely shut down the internet.
Every once in a Blue Moon the ACLU gets it right, and this is one of those times (I’m sure it wasn’t intentional).
As for the Constitutionality of shutting down the Internet without judicial review - EVER, even after a so-called emergency has passed - it is a taking of private property prohibited by the 5th without Due Process. Such would be nothing less than a declaration of war by a tyrannical government against our liberties and hence, against us.
TPTB should be careful what they wish for, they may get it...along with all of its unintended consequences.
we are past tar and feathers, get a rope, quick fair trial and lawful punishment treason
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