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Internet 'Kill Switch' Proposed For President
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| 06/18/2010
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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.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: killswitch
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To: Salvation
Not only NO but H*** NO to this bill. It’s a tool for total control.
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posted on
06/18/2010 9:50:12 PM PDT
by
pacpam
(action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
To: SpaceBar
Protecting cyberspace.
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posted on
06/18/2010 9:54:03 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: All
Many Americans are using the Internet as their soul source of voice communications. If Obama had an Internet "kill switch", he could turn off their phone service. No president should ever have this sort of authority.
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posted on
06/18/2010 9:57:08 PM PDT
by
pyx
(Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
To: Bronzy
While his hollywood elitist tools (who will be the free arts class of people as long as they tow the party line) scream “racism”, Obama pushes deeper into the “Chavez”.
Sadly, like most two-bit dictators, its all about the shoes, golf, palaces, fame and money.
Why would the Saudis want oil pumped out of the gulf? Soros is betting on Petrobus.
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Any Repub who votes for this needs to be replaced.
Pray for Freedom
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:01:00 PM PDT
by
bray
(Did Rush say Complete Failure?)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Too much bad talk, and BAM! internet down. Free speech dead.
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:04:31 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Love of God, Family and Country has made me an extremist.)
To: vpintheak
If anything would make me rise up it would be the attempted banning of FREE SPEECH. This is the USA, not Russia, Venezuela, Cuba. We have everything to lose if we do not stand up to this threat...time to draw a line and man-woman up and defend our life, liberties and pursuit of happiness. Our forefathers fought a tea tax...what will it take for US to stand up and fight for FREEDOM!
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:17:47 PM PDT
by
itssme
To: pyx
This acceleration of disconnect of government from the people is reminiscent of the timeline setout in William Schirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich".
The geometric increase in destabilizing events led by a rogue government made the German people the caboose on the train and their country was destroyed because of their inability to 'take back their country'.
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was required reading in high schools once upon a time. It is long and thick and hard to read due to the number of events covered. The one thing you can take away from the book is that so much happened so quickly and was purpotrated on the many by the few - like what's happening today with the leftists in charge in D.C.
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:24:00 PM PDT
by
x_plus_one
(a crude, bigoted, xenophobic display of partisan political Presidential petulance..........)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Go to Americans for Prosperity's site
NoInternetTakeover.com to sign a petition and send an email your CONgre$$ critters to oppose this fascist power grab.
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:24:12 PM PDT
by
kara2008
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
How could this even be done? The internet is every computer in the world with an online connection. I understand there are huge servers which help to keep things going fast, but it would require the complete take over of all tech companies in the US.
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:24:18 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
The bill is known as the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act. I thought Obamas plan was to turn over the Internet to UN control.
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:25:33 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
To: kara2008
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:36:11 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
I will just drag out my old SW equipment and continue on as if nothing happened.
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:47:05 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Rush, Beck and others are giving us the dots; it is up to us to connect them.)
To: doc1019
I have a 1200 baud that works just fine. Just keep the bbs boards low on content and high on information.
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:50:22 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: eyedigress
If the Pres hits the kill switch, the internet is gone. No modem will overcome that.
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:54:26 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Rush, Beck and others are giving us the dots; it is up to us to connect them.)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Internet 'Kill Switch' Proposed For President I saw the headline and thought that it would give us an opportunity to use the internet to kill the President's agenda.
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:59:24 PM PDT
by
esarlls3
To: Myrddin
Thanks for the correcting the link!
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posted on
06/18/2010 10:59:52 PM PDT
by
kara2008
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Somehow i see a dark motive in everything this Obama govt. wants to do with the ultimate goal of complete control of the government by the Dems and far left for years to come...Rverything being done is in the name of CONTROL—of the government-most imprtant; then control of GDP output, of Health Care, insurance,of labor with Labor Unions being the drivers of the serfs, of Mass Media to toe the government’s line, of open borders allowing their fervent backerss in, of a push for Sharia law in our Courts and a push for One World Government...These are dark hours for America..
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posted on
06/18/2010 11:09:09 PM PDT
by
billmor
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
I doubt someone could ‘turn off’ the internet, even if one or many companies gave someone the ability to do so. It would be like trying to give someone a “kill switch” over all of the electricity in America...
Sure many would lose power, but others would continue.
The internet is far too dispersed, with much of it outside of our borders and jurisdiction to have any hope of controlling it.
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posted on
06/18/2010 11:13:38 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: pyx
No president should ever have this sort of authority. Agreed. When they assume that kind of power they're called dictators. We're rapidly heading toward a totalitarian America.
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posted on
06/18/2010 11:14:23 PM PDT
by
Bernard Marx
(I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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