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Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 2/1/2011 Imagine if the government had the power to disconnect an entire country from its Internet service. Actually, we don’t have to imagine it; we have seen it happen in the past week, as the Mubarak regime in Egypt tried in vain to keep protesters from organizing on Twitter, Facebook, and other […] February 2nd, 2011 | Tags: "cybersecurity emergency", "kill switch", Communications Act, cyber attacks, Egypt, Facebook, Internet Service Providers, President Hosni Mubarak, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Sen. Susan Collins, Twitter | Category: 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Censorship, Congress, Internet, Progressives, Social networking websites | Comments are closed
ProgressiveThink.com “Thinking Like Our Founding Fathers” Last spring, a proposed U.S. Senate bill appeared attempting to hand over to the White House the power to disconnect privately owned computers from the Internet. That version was revised by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) behind closed doors. It is S.773 and part of it can be read here. […] September 1st, 2009 | Tags: "cybersecurity emergency", "Czar" Cass Sunstein, S. 773, Sen. Jay Rockefeller | Category: 1st Amendment, Censorship, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
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