Posted on 06/18/2010 9:22:14 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick
A new bill introduced in the Senate would give the president the equivalent of an Internet "kill switch" if passed. The concept has some communications companies hoping that legislators would rather kill the bill.
The bill is known as the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxillinois.com ...
We are a Reichstag fire away from it all.
>I doubt someone could ‘turn off’ the internet,
The most vulnerable point are the root DNS servers. You turn those off and bad things happen.
To cut off the internet would be a declaration of war against the American people and should be considered a call to arms!! The First amendment needs to be protected by the Second!!
Way out of his authority.....
No comment.
Giggle.
Why? Don't have the password to log onto it? Heehee...
The internet was built by DARPA (then ARPA) to survive
a nuclear attack.
Now it won’t survive the Imperial Narcissism of the
Self-proclaimed, undocumented, Emperor-for-Life.
BTW, soul source should be sole source.
The oil spill cleanup is the latest installment in the ongoing saga showing how the federal govt. cannot chew gum and walk at the same time. My college-age kids and their tech-savvy friends could probably run rings around whatever behemoth Internet-paralyzing stunt these goofs try to pull.
“Protecting cyberspace”. Think about those words until the full gravity of the complete line of BS we are being fed becomes clear.”
I did that with yesterday’s thread. I came up with: So they propose to do what the terrorist WANT to do? Okay.
I wish I had an automatic kill switch built into my TV. It would work any time the “Long legged Mack Daddy” shows up. That way, I wouldn’t have to see or listen while I change channels.
Its outrageous that they would audibly murmur this.
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Yeah, and the lib media won't say jack about it because they're getting their clocks cleaned by the alternative media. Now, if George Bush had proposed something similar...
We better show them in November or its over.
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