[SMARTY]

We can all get ham radio sets and tune in to ‘radio free America’

[maggief]

CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

http://www.politechbot.com/docs/rockefeller.revised.cybersecurity.draft.082709.pdf

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http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s773/show

S.773 - Cybersecurity Act of 2009

[jongaltsr]

And nobody is scared?

Maybe with this information everyone will begin to think - Why does he need this power if it is only for our good?

People, you have been warned. Take heed! Our freedoms are just about to disappear if you (we) don’t take immediate action.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Why is it that whenever there is a steaming pile of crap, Jay Rockefeller is always somehow right nearby? This guy is bigtime trouble.

[edcoil]

The gov needs to take care of gov not private industry.

[wastedyears]

There’s nothing they won’t do.

[downtownconservative]

Algore invented the internet. Shouldn’t he decide how we use it????????????????/s

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I’m STILL wondering why Hathaway resigned.

http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/08/04/wh-on-resignation-of-cybersecurity-adviser-melissa-hathaway/

[texrepub76]

Here's one man that would be proud: Paul Joseph Goebbels (German pronunciation: [ˈɡœbəls], English: /ˈɡɝːbəlz/; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reichsminister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, eventually succeeding him as Chancellor of Germany, an office he held for only one day, carrying out one official act: sending a delegation to seek a ceasefire with the Russians. Goebbels was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism. He was the chief architect of the Kristallnacht attack on the German Jews, which historians consider to be the commencement of the Nazi violence culminating in the Holocaust.

[Salvation]

Absolutely not! Don’t let Obama control the internet! Part of the schema, though, according to Beck and Limbaugh.

[nutmeg]

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

Headline for this story is in HUGE red text on Drudge right now. Freakin' unbelievable...

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

This needs to be put on ‘front page’ or ‘breaking news’. Just sayin’.

[MichiganConservative]

Only a kook would think that the government would use this to take freedoms away. You must all hate AMerica first! I can still watch baseball, NASCAR, and drink beer, so this is a free country. Remember to pay your taxes or you’re stealing from us all.

[RikaStrom]

Ping

[Celerity]

How exactly does one “control” a concept ?

the Internet isn’t a single system. There is no “control” of it whatsoever.

The US has control over some trunks and routes, some IP pools, but those can EASILY and I do believe by the greater good of Internic, AUTOMATICALLY bypassed should they break.

Taking control of the Internet is like taking control of sharing sugar with your neighbor.

[nutmeg]

ping!

[Gaffer]

In third world coup d'etat situations the first thing the rebels do is gain control of the media of truth. In these cases, radio and television stations, and the press.

In this country the primary 'media of truth' is the internet. Funny, huh? He doesn't need to 'take' over the MSM - he already controls them.....

[patriot preacher]

Uh....NO.

[khnyny]

Rush Limbaugh is talking about this on his show now....Wow.

[longtermmemmory]

is this like prohibition era liquor licenses where you have to have a “license” but the government never issue licenses.

IOW only ACORN style browshirts are allowed to have this “employment license”.

This is like the USSR mandating every office have a political officers.

USSR in the USA.