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Obama Should Be Able to Shut Down Entire Internet "When He Feels as If He Has to" by Jason Ditz, September 27, 2010
With the US military looking to use its new Cyber Command as a justification to engage in endless hostile action across the Internet, former CIA Director Michael Hayden believes that President Obama ought to be given broad new powers to shut the entire thing down.
“It is probably wise to legislate some authority to the President, to take emergency measures for limited periods of time, with clear reporting to Congress, when he feels as if he has to,†Hayden insisted.
Hayden expressed wonderment at the new possibilities of Internet warfare, likening it to a “frontier experience,†and saying it amount “to a new age of exploration†for the military. The idea to give President Obama full dictatorial power over the Internet “when he feels as if he has to†is nothing new, however.
Rather in June Senator Joe Lieberman (I – CT) introduced a bill in the Senate aiming to claim the entire Internet, across the entire planet, as a “national asset†of the United States and seeking to give President Obama the authority to shut it down on his own “for national security reasons.†The bill also sought to give President Obama the right to seize direct control over large portions of the Internet whenever he declares there to be a “cyber emergency.†The bill remains in Committee, but was eagerly endorsed by Microsoft and a number of other corporations.
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Why are you posting this? Is the intent to start a political discussion? Or argument? Or phishing for conservative outrage? Because we've been over these topics before and it doesn't end well. I'm asking these questions because I would like to know the intent behind the post.
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Hazmatt_(The Underdog) wrote ...
Why are you posting this? Is the intent to start a political discussion? Or argument? Or phishing for conservative outrage? Because we've been over these topics before and it doesn't end well. I'm asking these questions because I would like to know the intent behind the post.
To improve people's general knowledge about the nature of the world in which we live.
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This is an important issue for people everywhere, not just in the US. I hope that people learn more about the bill, decide how they feel about it, and then make those feelings known to their elected representatives.
That said, 4hv.org is not the place to hammer those feelings out. We have a lot of people here, from just about every piece of the political spectrum. It would be a shame to start driving wedges between people by opening the floor to a debate in which most of the participants have already made up their minds.
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Obama Should Be Able to Shut Down Entire Internet "When He Feels as If He Has to"
