The legislation would grant the president emergency powers to seize control of or even shut down portions of the Internet during times of national emergency.
It's been dubbed as an Internet "kill switch" the president could flip. However, the idea behind it is not new. A draft Senate proposal that CNET obtained in August allowed the White House to "declare a cybersecurity emergency," and another from Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) would have explicitly given the government the power to "order the disconnection" of certain networks or Web sites.
This is too much power in the hands of people that cannot be trusted with it.
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Hmm. Bush was pilloried as being a dictator. Yet, he never accrued this kind of power to the Executive. At the rate Obama is going, Congress will soon be obsolete.
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