Bill would give President emergency control of Internet in his dreams

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

Please don't take our internuts away from us!

Bill would give President emergency control of Internet in his dreams



West Virginia Senator John Davidson “Jay” Rockefeller IV — the Democratic great-grandson of oil mogul John D. Rockefeller — has been said to be working for months on a draft of S. 773, a bill whose stated goal is “to ensure the continued free flow of commerce within the United States and with its global trading partners through secure cyber communications, to provide for the continued development and exploitation of the Internet and intranet communications for such purposes, to provide for the development of a cadre of information technology specialists to improve and maintain effective cybersecurity defenses against disruption.”

Translation: It means the White House can order companies to disclose information, and possibly take control of their networks and computers, if the President declares them “critical” to an emergency involving the Internet.

...Fred Tien, an attorney with online rights advocates the Electronic Frontier Foundation, also told CNET that the bill’s language has become “more ambiguous” over time, empowering the President — currently a guy who has already had one cyber-czar quit on him — to declare a private network “critical” and effectively take control of it.

...more at the link
http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/28/bill-would-give-president-emergency-control-of-internet-in-his-dreams/

[DJ13]

1. This is bullshit

A Fascist wet dream.

[Lorax7844]

2. k and r

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

3. Note Electronic Frontier Foundation's comment

I hope that congress takes heed.

[undeterred]

4. Oh, I thought you meant Bill Gates.