Last Updated on September 21, 2023 by Christopher G Mendla
I don’t really who is in power, a socialist democrat or a conservative republican. There is a bill sponsered by Sen Lieberman that would give Obama a ‘kill switch’ for the internet. The bill is entitled Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act. Given the actions of this administration and the heavy handed tactics, this is a truly frightening bill. As much as I trust Sarah Palin, I would not even want her to have this much power.
Obama has shown his willingness to use regulatory tricks to try to shut down opposition such as Fox News. If he has this power, he could shut down our free speach on the flimsiest of pretexts.
Declan McCullagh points out in his article that, in a time of crisis, pulling the plug on the internet could weaken us.
The question one has to ask about this is “are there ulterior motives?”. Over the last 200 years, the political elite in this country have become used to a fawning media and the ability to control the news. The recent incident where a congressman attacked two students is upsetting to those who are used to contol. A decade ago the congressman or speaker’s office could have made a phone call to the reporters and quashed the story. Today, it goes out on Youtube and the power elites find themselves powerless to stop it.
This is also frightening in that an ever increasing portion of our communications is dependent on the internet. Many people have moved to Voice over IP for there phone service. Consider the following scenario. Terrorists detonate a nuclear device in a major city. The years of ‘community organizing’ have not prepared our commander in chief to deal with this. He panicks and pulls the plug on the internet. Now you try to call your kids at school to see if they are safe and make arrangements to get them home. You find out all of the lines are dead because Obama pulled the plug on the internet. You try to google ‘radiation pills’ to find out if the pottasium iodate you have in the medicine cabinet is an antidote. Your spouse is at home trying to go online to determine what to do for your diabetic child since the pharmacy can’t process your prescriptions for his insulin but there is no internet.
Oh, Obama, won’t mind, like everything else, HIS internet will be working and dozens of govenrment agents will be looking after HIS family… Let them eat cakes.
- The senate version of the bill
- PrisonPlanet article
- Article by Declan McCullagh of ZDnet