Nothing to see here folks, move along now, just more of that right wing extremism and them knee jerk conspiracy theories at work here. Everything is under control, the government is here to help.
Just look at how well they are handling that mess down in the gulf. Ah...scratch that. Just look at how well they are handling the increase in global terrorism. Ah....scratch that.
Just look at how well they are handling unemployment and a rising deficit laboring under a fizzling economy and a recovery that remains illusive if not dead on arrival.
Well scratch that too. Just pay attention to this new bill that is being passed and will be signed into law for your benefit. Many like Rosey O'Donnell and Bill Mayer and Sean Penn and a host of others in Hollywood, can't wait until Obama is given (or takes) dictatorial province over this nation and it's people. And what better way to begin that process, than by handing over the the keys to the cyber kingdom to a president who knows how to both use and limit information to his benefit.
Certainly he wouldn't do anything outside of his altruistic campaign rhetoric and the constitution now would he. Surely not. I mean unless of course there was some sort of crisis, then of course, we could all easily understand how his reactions to limiting the internet would be for purely national security reasons.And Janet Napolitano would never declare a national security emergency unless there was one? Right?
Softly, softly catchy monkies......
New Bill Gives Obama ‘Kill Switch’ To Shut Down The Internet
The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive.
Lieberman has been pushing for government regulation of the Internet for years under the guise of cybersecurity, but this new bill goes even further in handing emergency powers over to the feds which could be used to silence free speech under the pretext of a national emergency.
“The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects “shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed” by the Department of Homeland Security. Anyone failing to comply would be fined,” reports ZDNet’s Declan McCullagh.
The 197-page bill (PDF) is entitled Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, or PCNAA.
Technology lobbying group TechAmerica warned that the legislation created “the potential for absolute power,” while the Center for Democracy and Technology worried that the bill’s emergency powers “include authority to shut down or limit internet traffic on private systems.”
The bill has the vehement support of Senator Jay Rockefeller, who last year asked during a congressional hearing, “Would it had been better if we’d have never invented the Internet?” while fearmongering about cyber-terrorists preparing attacks.
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