Could The Feds Seize The Internet?

IBD Editorials ^ | September 2, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Security: A Senate bill lets the president "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "nongovernmental" computer networks and do what's needed to respond to the threat. Didn't they just collect our e-mail addresses?

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We wish this was just a piece of the fictional "Dr. Strangelove" that fell to the cutting-room floor, but it's not. It is a real piece of disturbingly vague legislation sponsored by Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine.

Senate Bill 773 would grant the administration emergency powers (where have we heard that before?) in the event of a cyberemergency that the president would have the power to define and declare.

Wait a minute. Didn't the left recently weep and gnash its teeth over President George W. Bush's wireless surveillance of communications between real, live terrorists who want to kill us and their American contacts? Would Congress have given Bush such a sweeping power?

Have we already forgotten the administration wanting Americans to spy on their neighbors and report "fishy" communications opposing health care to flag@whitehouse.gov? Didn't oodles of our e-mail addresses wind up in the White House from which then came unsolicited e-mails supporting ObamaCare?

A working draft of the legislation, which is in its second incarnation, obtained by an Internet privacy group, would grant the secretary of commerce access to all privately owned information networks deemed critical to the nation's infrastructure "without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access." Where's the ACLU?

[myknowledge]

[FlyingEagle]

Laws? Whtie House don’t need no stinkin’ laws. Obowma don’t need no stinkin’ laws!!

[babygene]

I ask my son about this. His reaction was that a private internet would spring up within days. With a soup can and 802.11, you can communicate 10 miles line of sight.

Then they would have to contend with an ad-hock internet that they would have NO control over...

[zeugma]

Makes my Amateur Radio license (Ham) seem oh so valuable—once again.

Yup. zeugma and wife just recently got ours.

[Muzzle_em]

funny how that happens!

breaker, breaker

[Muzzle_em]

Ok, this made me spew my screen!

You jest, however, the taking of the internet will indeed be the act that spurs the revolt!

[devane617]

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[Cindy]

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[Still Thinking]

I ask my son about this. His reaction was that a private internet would spring up within days. With a soup can and 802.11, you can communicate 10 miles line of sight. Then they would have to contend with an ad-hock internet that they would have NO control over...

Maybe we should just go straight to that one without waiting.