President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the floor.
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which is being pushed hard by Senator Joe Lieberman, would hand absolute power to the federal government to close down networks, and block incoming Internet traffic from certain countries under a declared national emergency.
Despite the Center for Democracy and Technology and 23 other privacy and technology organizations sending letters to Lieberman and other backers of the bill expressing concerns that the legislation could be used to stifle free speech, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed in the bill in advance of a vote on the Senate floor.
In response to widespread criticism of the bill, language was added that would force the government to seek congressional approval to extend emergency measures beyond 120 days.
Still, this would hand Obama the authority to shut down the Internet on a whim without Congressional oversight or approval for a period of no less than four months.
Fears that the legislation is aimed at bringing the Internet under the regulatory power of the U.S. government in an offensive against free speech were heightened further on Sunday, when Lieberman revealed that the plan was to mimic China’s policies of policing the web with censorship and coercion.
“Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,” Lieberman said.
While media and public attention is overwhelmingly focused on the BP oil spill, the establishment is quietly preparing the framework that will allow Obama, or indeed any President who follows him, to bring down a technological iron curtain that will give the government a foot in the door on seizing complete control over the Internet.
6 comments:
We are learning too much information about the elite and their agendas for our lives.
The control of the internet is absolutely necessary for the elite to maintain a stranglehold on us.
They will force us to watch and listen to their media corporations for information.
The brainwashing of the citizens will continue unabated.
it will also shut down commerce for millions. communist countries have this control on their "subjects". is this what we are willing to settle for in the United States of America? wake up citizens and start making your voices heard. call your representatives NOW..... it will make a difference. it has in the past. don't give up..
Sounds like communist Korea doesn't it!!
Leibermann thinks whats good in China will be good for us??? HE IS AN IDIOT!! He IS aware (I assume, anyway) that China is a brutal dictatorship? And what in the hell does shutting down the internet have to do with us fighting a war??? China would shut it down so their OWN PEOPLE couldn't communicate against the Chinese government!! Liebermann should quietly resign, because he has lost his credibility and all sense of what our country stands for...WHO does he speak for???
Lieberman represents Israel in our government along with many other Zionist politicians.
This scares the hell out of me! Obama probably is the anti-Christ! We are losing our freedoms and are in real trouble. Soon the USA will be a dictatorship if we don't speak up for our rights and get Obama out of here!
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