S. 773 to give President emergency control of Internet

[tdyoung58]

Why bother with a Sedition Act?

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 of S.773, which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

[Strapped]

already being discussed here.

http://forum.pafoa.org/national-11/7...-internet.html

[tdyoung58]

my bad, feel free to make it go away supermods