[Political Junkie Too]

A bill making its way through Congress proposes to give the U.S. government authority over all networks considered part of the nation's critical infrastructure. Under the proposed Cybersecurity Act of 2009, the president would have the authority to shut down Internet traffic to protect national security.

How is my access to YouTube, Amazon, and FR a "threat to national security?"

A "threat to national security" would be if they hacked into a Pentagon database, or a Congressionial network, or the hard drives at Los Alamos labs, but I doubt that those are available from the internet.

And when did the internet become part of "the nation's critical infrastructure?"

All it will take is one internal CIA-led "attack" to give Obama the reason to shut down the internet. I'd be surprised if something as little as a FReep of a CNN online poll would be enough to call it an attack, if there was some viral news or video making the rounds that Obama wanted stopped.

-PJ

[Don Corleone]

And when did the internet become part of "the nation's critical infrastructure?"

Ask ALgore..he invented it!