Posted on 06/17/2010 5:06:41 PM PDT by Justaham
"The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive.
Lieberman has been pushing for government regulation of the Internet for years under the guise of cybersecurity, but this new bill goes even further in handing emergency powers over to the feds which could be used to silence free speech under the pretext of a national emergency.
“The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects “shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed” by the Department of Homeland Security. Anyone failing to comply would be fined,” reports ZDNet’s Declan McCullagh.
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He has tested it here at free Republic as of late
This is the scariest thing yet. Do FReepers have a secret way of keeping in contact with each other and our moves when this happens. No Joke.
KILL the BILL!
Government with absolute power use it.
Some do:
CQ...CQ...CQ...
Yes but you have to have a decoder ring.
Heh...they screw with the net too much— even people who could care less about politics will be coming after lawmakers with pitchforks,torches and guns.
This is one thing EVERYBODY (left, right and everything in between) will come together and go after the gov’t.
Shut Down/Disrupt his enemy's communication.
call your congressmen now
Seemed like they were practicing with it today, this morning. The net was working like crap today.
Don`t worry, I have a sw7itch that shuts down TOTUS. Without it he won`t know how to use the Internet off switch... :)
de KB1....
He's already begun to do just that. The Apologizing for America Tour was just the beginning....
Our dictator just wants the power that his buddies in China and Argentina have. I don’t think that even the libs will let him get away with this.
WILL THE DIMS EVER WAKE UP AND GET RID OF THIS PUKE BEFORE HE COMPLETES DESTROYING THE COUNTRY?????
73s
Oklahoma mobile back at you!
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