[MissTed]

I wouldn't want the President to have access to my television remote. 61%??? Really???

[sarasota]

Has Julian Asange of Wikileaks weighed in on this?

[Bigh4u2]

You should have read the whole article.

"Now, Unisys is in the business of helping “governments around the world” “solve their business problems through systems that optimize the organization and secure the enterprise,” so it’s probably not too surprising that they’d interpret their own poll in a way so conveniently helpful to their core business. The way Unisys phrased the question makes it appear that there was at least some mild push polling at work"

[Albion Wilde]

In a real world, our president would be a natural-born American of American parents, proud of all legal citizens of the 57 United States of America, and with American interests at heart.

[ShadowAce]

[WayneS]

IF that is true, and I am by no means conceding that it is, then the "Majority of Americans" are idiotic sheep.

[GitmoSailor]

Have they been testing the kill switch on FReeRepublic last week????

[BigSkyFreeper]

I’d say these are the same Americans who aren’t opposed to net neutrality.

[silverleaf]

Let’s re-phrrase that question

Would the majority of liberals be OK with President Sarah Palin having an internet kill switch?

[Still Thinking]

Rule 1: Yes, national security is important, and I WOULD be willing to give up email and the web if it were the only way to foil a truly foreign invader.

Rule 2: In order for Rule 1 to kick in, I would have to KNOW, not simply be assured by the government, that it was in fact necessary and not simply a power play by a government bent on dominating their erstwhile masters and taking away any means they might have to defend themselves against that domination.

I can't imagine the circumstances under which rule 2 could EVER be satisfied.

[esoxmagnum]

My crystal ball says that there will be a devastating cyber attack on the US october 2012, that will cause the internet to be closed down, except for financial institutions and military for a 2 month period.

[caver]

The first sentence says it all.

[tutstar]

too many ignorant people

[a fool in paradise]

I’ll bet the poll results would be different AFTER peoples’ online apps and social networks and email “freeze” for a couple of days.

[MalPearce]

This’d be the kill switch for the Internet that has been built out of a design that owes its existence to a DARPA project that was set up to create redundant paths of communication between sites, so that even in the event of global thermonuclear war taking out 40% of the continental United States infastructure, telecoms traffic would just route its way around the missing bits.

And now with over 135,000 routers on the American internet backbone, not all of them under government control, AND failover / load balanced systems, and multilayered hardware (not to mention bespoke firmware stripping out default admin accounts and so on, on-demand manual dialup connections, redundant microwave links, fiber-optic links through Faraday cages to mitigate EMP damage, and so on), people actually think that such a thing as a kill switch is even viable?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Sounds like something Gene Roddenberry might’ve jotted down on his “Things to get Commander Data to do” list. But I guess he must’ve crossed it out on account of the Holodeck being more believable.

Mockery aside, even if you could script something to bomb out all those routers, it’d take time for the signal to propagate. Long enough for any sensible geek to pull the plug out and figure out a way round the problem.

[antiRepublicrat]

I’ve read the legislation, and I still can’t find the “kill switch” part of it. If someone can, please tell me where it is.