BILL TO GIVE PRESIDENT OBAMA POWER TO SHUTDOWN INTERNET, BLOGGERS BEWARE – THIS CONCERNS YOU!

Here’s a bright idea. Let’s give the President, Obama currently, the power to just randomly shut down the internet. I can’t imagine this one not being abused. Yes, if Senate Bills #s 773 and 778 have their way introduced by Jay Rockefeller and co-sponsored by Olympia Snowe, the President will get the power to shut off the internet to stop the flow of information within the U.S. whenever he deems it an appropriate cyber emergency. It also will provide immediate information to the Secretary of Commerce on all privately owned networks deemed to be critical to the nation’s infrastructure “without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access.” We’re talking major privacy invasion issues here, not to mention wadding up the constitution and throwing it in the trash. The problem is that nowhere do these bills define what circumstances are appropriate and does not define what a cyber emergency is.  I’ve embedded a video below which explains this insanity further…and better. This has bipartisan sponsorship which means this actually could have a chance of passing. For those of us that blog and are primary to this information flow, this is a direct attack AND SHOULD BE OF PRIMARY CONCERN.