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A bill is being introduced in the U.S. Congress aimed at addressing Cyber threats. The bill, dubbed, "Protecting Cyber Space as a National Asset" or PCNAA, gives authority to the executive branch over the internet. A popular tag for this bill, is the "Internet Kill Switch", for the power it would give to the president to shut down the internet in an emergency.
Obviously this is going to cause controversy. Perhaps may be seen as a large expanse of federal power.
My thoughts are that, there are probably always cyber security attacks every day. What is to stop the powers granted under this pretense from being abused?
Any thoughts on this bill?
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/18/does-the-internet-need-a-kill-switch/
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3480/text
Obviously this is going to cause controversy. Perhaps may be seen as a large expanse of federal power.
My thoughts are that, there are probably always cyber security attacks every day. What is to stop the powers granted under this pretense from being abused?
Any thoughts on this bill?
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/18/does-the-internet-need-a-kill-switch/
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3480/text
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