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  • Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

    08/28/2009 8:13:33 AM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 526 replies · 19,208+ views
    CNET ^ | August 28, 2009 12:34 AM PDT | Declan McCullagh
    Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency. The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer...