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I didn’t go through the whole thread, but speaking as a CyberSecurity professional, there is ALWAYS a “cybersecurity emergency” occurring in the US segments of the internet at any given time. Just as there is always a perpetual “state of emergency” that certain executive orders are always poised to exploit if the need should arise. If this bill passes, the office of the president will have the ability to shut down the US system anytime something happens he doesn’t like, simply by pointing at whatever Chinese, North Korean, or Eastern European hacker club happens to be trying to break into NASA that day and invoking the bill.

And to those pointing out the distributed nature of the internet, you are correct, to a point. However, there is a “backbone” if you will, and it along with the top-level DNS servers (or server clusters) can be co-opted; and if they are, the internet is effectively crippled. Recall what happened when that Korean team nailed just one of the 13 top-level domain DNS machines a couple of years ago.