xenophon10k: What it won't give him is the ability.

Of course they have the ability, they can just ask Al Gore.



/Yes yes, I know he didn't really say that, whatever, still funny

This is what happens when you elect a bunch of do-nothings who think the internet is run by magic in charge of things.

Nabb1: HOLY FARKING SHIAT THEY ARE GOING TO SEIZE THE TUBES.

/Even if they don't have the technical capability presently, I'm not sure I like the idea of them granting that power.

It's like an Internet Death Panel.

Obama and this Congress is making the Bush administration look better everyday.

Sinister Steve: Obama and this Congress is making the Bush administration look better everyday.

I'm totally going to use this when I troll politics threads from now on, I hope you don't mind.

El Chode: It's like an Internet Death Panel.

Just without the panel. The president can, apparently, shut down the internet on his own.

/how are they going to rig that switch and how long after it is rigged before someone hacks into it?

jwa007: Just without the panel. The president can, apparently, shut down the internet on his own.

/how are they going to rig that switch and how long after it is rigged before someone hacks into it?

Well that's doesn't give me a good buzzword to be outraged at, now does it?

Nabb1: How about "Presidential Internet Kill Switch"?

Almost, but it needs more poor taste. Maybe like "Presidential Internet Final Solution"

EvilEgg: Lots of money and good sense happen to be on the same side this time, it'll never happen.

At what expense? I can see a compromise ending up in the end of net neutrality as the gov't agrees with telecom to throttle "dangerous" sites.

This is why I like my books and money printed and in hand.
Turn off the internet, turn off the electricity- and whaddaya got?

This will never happen. By doing that, at the very least you would be censoring free speech. It would be like stopping all television broadcasts or newspaper deliveries. Sure, he may have the power, but it will never be wielded.

This is the most asinine thing I have ever heard of. The weight of the ignorance of this article made me vomit a little in my mouth.

Millions of really pissed and armed nerds.

What gives Congress the authority to give the President the authority? Or is this another "interstate commerce means everything at all times and more" sort of thing?

El Chode: Nabb1: How about "Presidential Internet Kill Switch"?

Almost, but it needs more poor taste. Maybe like "Presidential Internet Final Solution"

Presidential Internet Networking Interrupt Switch is much better.

sweetmelissa31: We need to find someone brave enough to plug it back in.

Snake Plisskin, oh wait.

That's okay...the l.0.p.h.t. guise can just turn it back on...

Take away my internet? From my warm, sticky hands...

meat0918: El Chode: Nabb1: How about "Presidential Internet Kill Switch"?

Almost, but it needs more poor taste. Maybe like "Presidential Internet Final Solution"

Presidential intErnet Networking Interrupt Switch is much better.

FTFY

I hear the president of the US also has the power to launch a nuclear strike against other nuclear armed nations.

all this means is that he'll legaly be allowed to shoot Al Gore in the face.

/everyone knows the internet is connected to a fail-safe on Al Gores heart...
//but seriously this kinda scares me
///on the plus side we'll know when the war is starting

EvilEgg: Places like Google, Amazon, CNN, Fox, etc. don't want to see that happen. So there would be a fight between them and the telecoms. While that fight would be very close, I like to imagine that in a money tie Congress might default to doing the right thing.

Wait, why not? I can understand Google, but why not the others?

meat0918: El Chode: Nabb1: How about "Presidential Internet Kill Switch"?

Almost, but it needs more poor taste. Maybe like "Presidential Internet Final Solution"

Presidential Internet Networking Interrupt Switch is much better.


I prefer Presidential Internet Final Countdown

/your move TMLO

Quasar: President Madagascar! There's a cybersecurity emergency!

Somebody please MS Paint a President America gif for this.

El Chode: Nabb1: How about "Presidential Internet Kill Switch"?

Almost, but it needs more poor taste. Maybe like "Presidential Internet Final Solution"

FTW

meat0918: El Chode: Nabb1: How about "Presidential Internet Kill Switch"?

Almost, but it needs more poor taste. Maybe like "Presidential Internet Final Solution"

Presidential Ethernet Internet Networking Interrupt Switch is much better.


Fixed that for you.

They are installing it already...

El Chode: Sinister Steve: Obama and this Congress is making the Bush administration look better everyday.

I'm totally going to use this when I troll politics threads from now on, I hope you don't mind.

FAIL

Criticism of Great Leader is not Trolling.

Remember, dissent and protest are the highest form of patriotism. I learned that during the Bush administration. Just because a lib-tard is in office, it seems like the left cannot stand anyone who might criticize the government.

Just ask yourself this, if Bush was in power and a Republican congress proposed this bill, would you still be so pro-government control?

Some Texan: This will never happen. By doing that, at the very least you would be censoring free speech. It would be like stopping all television broadcasts or newspaper deliveries. Sure, he may have the power, but it will never be wielded.



/I'm betting President Palin will be the first to succumb to the shiny, candy-like button.

Obamamedinijad?

"The President has ordered that the giant router be unplugged!"

eggrolls: But how will we access our internet porn from our FEMA re-education camps while waiting for a death panel decision?

It will be provided for you, chosen personally by Gorgor.

The constitution is only a guideline to the ruling class.... shut up and do your job and pay your taxes!!!

More stupid fearmongering

from the bill

(2) may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network;

(5) shall direct the periodic mapping of Federal Government and United States critical infrastructure information systems or networks, and shall develop metrics to measure the effectiveness of the mapping process;

(6) may order the disconnection of any Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information systems or networks in the interest of national security"....


This bill does not give them the authority nor the ability to "shut down the internet"... it was designed in such a way as to prevent it from being shutdown. There is no button you can push, no lever to pull, nothing that will simultaneously cause all of the networking devices and protocols to cease working outside of an EMP.