Posted on 08/29/2009 3:49:42 AM PDT by Phree Non-Phixion
A Senate bill, S-773, would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him authority to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks.
Details of a revised version of the CyberSecurity Act of 2009 emerged late Thursday (August 27th), months after an initial version authored by Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). The original version was highly criticized in Silicon Valley as a dangerous government intrusion.
The new version of the CyberSecurity Act of 2009 changes the wording to allow the President to “declare a cyber-security emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks. As with the original bill, however, the revised bill does not explain what a cyber-security emergency is.
(this article includes more details and links to the bill)
Presidential Authority to Shut Down the Internet?
I see that Rockefeller, America’s Uriah Heep, is at it again. He must be tired of screwing-up our intelligence gathering capability and leaking top secrets to the New York Times. The man is dangerous, very dangerous.
I know we have folks on Free Republic in West Virginia and I think it is a beautiful state.......BUT.......any State that has Jay Rockefeller and R Byrd as it’s Senators should be ashamed of themselves.
They steal money from everyone else in the country and pay off all the whores that keep them in office.
agree
Well ... R. Byrd probably won’t be around the Senate for much longer ...
Yeah, well, that was said about Teddy the K.
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In 1969.
Well ... R. Byrd probably won’t be around the Senate for much longer ...
The light at the end of the tunnel.
Why anybody would vote for a Rockefeller, Kennedy, Bush, ect is beyond me. Don’t vote for an oligarch (or the offspring of one) and expect anything but a loss of liberty for the common man.
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
The security I put on my computer network is not unlike the lock I put on my front door. I don't give the government a key to my house and I don't want to give them a key to my computer network.
The only time it should be permitted for the government to even consider messing with my computer is when a formal declaration of war has been passed. Even with a such a declaration, it doesn't mean they kick me out of my own computer network and off the internet.
The value of property rights has been decreasing.
Once they get firm control of the Internet and the broadcast media, they will have gone a long way to silencing the opposition. They are working on both plans as we speak. Folks, our liberties are severely threatened.
Belated welcome to FR.
Indeed. It’s not about cyber-security; it’s about controlling information to/for/from we, the people.
If they ‘own’ the Internet and Mark Lloyd, the new FCC Diversity Czar, closes talk radio ... we will lose two vital tools of communication.
“The value of property rights has been decreasing.”
and will become illegal eventually.
we will be stuck with the US mail, shortwave - if you have a transmitter and can find a freq that isn’t jammed the moment you come up and can survive the result of your signal being tracked, located, and destroyed in a few minutes.
Then there is always that old stand by - horse back...
Give me a break! As much as you obviously dislike President Bush, he would NEVER have proposed this or anything like what the Obama administration is doing.
Contact your Congress critters on this one!
Oly Snowe has her fingerprints on this too.
Better make this yet another theme of the Tea Party. They are basically proposing a modern Stamp Act. Also, get secession movements in gear in case Washington is unsalvageable.
Our government is more corrupt and power-grabbing now than I ever remember.
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