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"A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack. Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the charges that the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act gives the president an Internet "kill switch."

wanting thoughts on it, and to ask… if it happens, can we back trace it.. and if we do, will the consequences never be the same?

what?

Google --> Obama internet kill switch.

i'm just looking for the thoughts of others on this.

all i can say is a cry scream coming from me like the ones in stevan segal movies.

LoL

i would hope that all the people in the states will stand against it, and even those not in the states. silly Gov. messing with our 'inter webs'

I dun liek this idea, too much power.

how bout no

I agree. No one person (or small group of people) should be able to control it like this.

I realize that there is a legitimate counter-argument, and I probably wouldn't be able to argue against it intelligently.

But Still! :/

EDIT: Move thread to "General"

silly Obaba….. Cyberspace isn't real.

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kind of new here…. >.> how do i move the thread? or is it that i just make a new one there?

^Don't make a new thread. I was just making a note to the forum moderators (You can't move it yourself).

A mod has to do it, I think.

oh okay. sorry, i should have put it in General in the first place.

but yeah, i'm with ya, that is WAY to much power… i would think that other nations would get onto them about this.

Ok, where is your sources for this information, I'd like to read it to get all the details.

just google 'internet kill switch'… you will see alot of sites talking about it.

http://news.techworld.com/security/3228198/obama-internet-kill-switch-plan-approved-by-us-senate/?olo=rss

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/25/internet-kill-switch-appr_n_625856.html

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/07/internet_kill_s.html

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365393,00.asp

here is a few URL's.

(the thread has been moved)

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-3480

Heres the bill itself.

Although I dont agree on shutting down any of the internet, since that is actually some ones property, and that violates the constitution, I do agree on Cyber security laws.

But than again, I think commercial internet, and user internet should be some what separate to allow certain laws.

i'm all for Security, to a point. The US. Gov. as a thing about giving a little Security and also taking of some freedoms.

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." – Benjamin Franklin

yep, and he was kind of on the smart side, but leave it to the Gov. to ignore smart men.

Pfft, that's impossible. Everyone knows Al Gore controls the internet.

And he can easily take it away.

Everyone knows Anon controls the internet.

And he can easily take it away.

And that is the issue.

Revolution?

Our society deserves this, as a lesson.

yeah, sure why not. i'm not doing anything.

Our nation is in great need of a Revolution, in my eyes anyway. if left alone, it will get to far out of our hands to fix it with out harming our nation to the breaking point… again, in my eyes.

http://goldsilver.com/newsletters/newsID/8707/ref/1

Here is an interesting article.

yeah, heard all of that before. not sure how to stop it with out some kind of Revolution.

this kind of revolution

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if i could give you more then 1 karma for that i would.. lol

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i was the original poster

here are three vids… (3 at once is ok? not two sure as of yet the 'posting ethics' of this site)

The internet is a world created by people, for all people, created to be used and regulated by all people together, not a handful of people who would seize control of community property and use it in ways unintended for the people it was used for.

something like, 'we the people'… 'For the People By the people'? they got a hold on that real good… the Internet is just something else they will try to gain control over. They will do to us with the internet like all other freedoms we had and were turned from freedoms to 'Privileges'.

And once china drops the stocks over here, we are gonna hit bottom real quick, the only reason we are lasting so long is because we are the currency standard.

I don't think it would take much right now.

The real problem with our government is that it really does not need to change, but we on the other hand have to change to change everything else.

Edit

Also I bet "change" was an inside joke.