Bill Would Give President Emergency Control Over Internet
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 (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 networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.
Here’s the entire article.
Just what constitutes a “cybersecurity emergency?” This nation is moving closer to a dictitorial state controlled by the far left.
During the past few weeks Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have stressed the threat the Obama Administration poses to our first amendment freedoms – from the possibility of reinstituting the “Fairness Doctrine” to the FCC’s new Minority Czar.
FCC’s new “chief diversity officer” Mark Lloyd’s influence on regulatory policy could prove detrimental to free speech on America’s radio airwaves.
As Beck has reported, Lloyd (a fan of Hugo Chavez) endorsed these programs when he was a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress:
- Restoring local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations.
- Ensuring greater local accountability over radio licensing.
- Requiring commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting.
Obama certainly has assembled members of the far left to fill positions in his administration and is posing a threat to our freedome unlike any in the nation’s history.
Hat tip: cnet and newsbusters.org.
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If this passes and is signed, watch out. Whoever is not awake now, will be by then.
My Senator Bill Nelson D-FL, is co-sponsoring. He does not run again until 2012.
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That’s the problem with six year senate terms. You do what you want for five years and “get religion” when it’s toime for reelection.
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I don’t know why this thread hasn’t got more comments.
This is real, and if it happens, we lose the simplest, best way to spread the word.
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Time to revive the moribund amateur radio network – and lay in more ammo.
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What will the crisis be? I still say the crisis is polling numbers. He gets any lower and the internet is under lockdown. Can’t have the people informed enough to drop the numbers further. It will involve HC, so look for it to be passed within 2 days + of – the shut down.
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Booshkindoggin,
FCC already has mandated control over the amateur bands and can shut them down in a heartbeat, per the Communications Act of 1934. Allocation and utilization of amateur radio is considered a ‘privilege’ in the Feds eyes.
Which by the way the FCC believes it can enter your home for any purpose if they suspect you or someone in your home is operating an offending radio transmitter. (eg wrong frequency, too much power, etc.) That too in in the CA of ‘34.
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Speaking of silencing dissent
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Well I suppose we can all communicate via carrier pigeon…
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He’ll shut it down in order to seize our guns
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Welcome, Federalist! Go grab yourself a Gravatar and stick around!
I do agree with you, about the gun issue. If we have no idea what is coming, we cannot prepare. We cannot organize.
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We’ll have to hand out phone numbers, then.