Heard about this earlier and recalled all the brouhaha over Bush's wire taps, web site and e-mail monitoring of suspected individuals with terrorist ties. That was targeted and done to intercept and identify threats to the security of the country and the left went wild over its intrusion into the communications of 'citizens' and naturalized domestic terrorists.
I suspect identities of citizens have already been recorded by some unknown committee run by an
Obama czar and compiled into an Enemies List. When the list becomes large enough (soon) this law gives authority for the executive to shut down Internet communications by fiat, a blanket smothering political dissent.
Growing the list will be simple. Phone companies, cable and DSL providers and satellite providers will be compelled to submit names and addresses of subscribers and their URLs countering the effectiveness of all of us lying bastards' attempts to foil the coming Census questionnaire.
What's next?
(Dave, remember the warning we were given for pulling an unauthorized eavesdrooping offense.....$10,000 and 10 years for each offense.)
On a serious note. It is easy to react to such legislation understandably with concern. But such news is very easy to steer up images of zero somehow controlling the whole entity, which is silly. The Internet is a vast conglomerate of huge networks which in turn are controlled by huge local/intra-Internet and other type network entities. One just does not send out some kind of code or stream of data over the whole world’s interlaced networks and take control of them. That is Hollywood stuff.