Thank you Egypt!

[gunderwood]

Three U.S. senators who want to give the president emergency powers over the Internet are protesting comparisons with the "kill switch" highlighted by Egypt's Net disconnection.

In a statement yesterday, the politicians said their intent was to allow the president "to protect the U.S. from external cyber attacks," not to shut down the Internet, and announced that they would revise their legislation to explicitly prohibit that from happening.

"Some have suggested that our legislation would empower the president to deny U.S. citizens access to the Internet," said the statement from Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Senator Tom Carper, (D-Del.). "Nothing could be further from the truth." Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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Still don't trust the "kill switch" and of course these things have habit of getting perverted later. I love how they are now backtracking on it. Why do they think people were complaining about the kill switch previously? Seriously, some of our elected representatives are too stupid to figure out simple things.

[davasmith]

I think a more fitting description is (they tend to follow the leader), and yes
I do believe that if obama jumped from a bridge, all his followers would just to show "unity". It doesn't seem to matter about right or wrong with those people just the fact that they're on a side. As for the kill switch, I don't believe it would have ever came to be. There are some good people in Washington who would have moved to stop it. IMHO<