Senate Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet -Kill Switch

Fox News ^ | 08-28-09 | Fox News

[blasater1960]

A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a "kill switch" to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks -- a move cybersecurity experts worry will choke off industry and civil liberties.

[blasater1960]

The noose tightens against the dissenters.

[Jewbacca]

In short, when Obama cooks up his Kristallnacht, Freerepublic will go dark.

[a fool in paradise]

This is the same White House that spammed partisan propaganda to “random” email accounts.

I don’t trust their finger on any button.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is like GWB ordering all planes out of the sky. There had jolly well be a good reason obvious to all, or all hell will break loose.

[Army Air Corps]

Thanks, Obama-voting schmucks.

[Brookhaven]

For the first time ever, I’m going to say it: already posted.

I would say already posted here (where here is a link to the thread), but I would have to type “here” 2,387 times.

[healy61]

Hackers will probably turn the whole thing back on.

[healy61]

And thanks for putting this up. I hadn’t seen it elsewhere.

[blasater1960]

I can see that coming as well.....

[Sig Sauer P220]

Well now, aren’t his fellow Islamists working on doing that by exploding an EMP over the center of the country?

[blasater1960]

I did look....oh well...sometimes a thread like this needs to be repeated....dont want to miss this info.

[Biggirl]

Civil war or revolution is not a matter of if but when.

[the invisib1e hand]

guess we’re gonna have to start looking into short waver radios, as one FReeeper mentioned some time ago.

[Biggirl]

Plus we could see more folks becomeing hackers in the process.

[bigbob]

Even Obama can’t control the ionosphere!

[Joiseydude]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=control%20of%20internet

[Notwithstanding]

x42 must be seething purple
that he did not have such a switch

to use to keep Drudge
from exposing the preserved blue dress
having William J. Clinton’s sperm stains on it,

thus revealing irrefutable proof
that Clinton ejaculated
while being fellated
to orgasm in the Oval Office

by young intern Monica Lewinsky,
just as she had claimed
and contrary to Clinton’s denials and smears of Lewinsky.

[Publius6961]

Sorry, Mac, but I'm the center of the universe and I haven't seen the previous 2386 times it was posted. Some of us have a life!

So buzz off.

[DonaldC]

The Feds can’t even protect their own small pieces of the internet and yet they want to control everyone’s internet. Kinda like medicare and national health care, isn’t it?

[kitkat]

***A Senate source familiar with the bill likened the new power to take control of portions of the Internet to what President Bush did when he grounded all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001, CNET News reported.***

This “Senate source” should be reminded of the right to FREE SPEECH.