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btw this bill passed the commitee, will be voted on by senate next
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/56061 is a blog i did on this

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Haha, way to go statist idiots.

But seriously, the thing we should all fear the most about this is once legislation like this is proposed it never goes away until its passed. It may not happen this year or the next, but eventually it becomes a war of attrition where the voters become less verbal against it and then the legislators get it passed.

Once it's passed the people will be angry, but soon they'll lay another red herring at the collective feet of the people and we'll all forget that it passed. It's like what health care reform did to the Patriot Act. Or hell, even the war in Iraq. When's the last time you heard someone from either party wanting to end either of the war or the Patriot Act? Not since Bush was in office.

Another thing. Most people who see this as being terrible also probably support Net Neutrality. Sure, don't give that power to the POTUS, but certainly give it to a nonrepresentational government bureaucracy.

Ya, and DRM stops pirating...errr wait.

Wasn't the internet designed so that in the event major cities were nuked that the internet would continue functioning? So how exactly do they plan to install a "switch" that will shut it off?

Anything Lieberman does is at the direction of Israel. Look at the mess they are in after they killed the humanitarian flotilla people, and the whole episode was posted on the internet. The Israel/US relationship really is the tail wagging the dog.

>> ^jimnms:

Wasn't the internet designed so that in the event major cities were nuked that the internet would continue functioning? So how exactly do they plan to install a "switch" that will shut it off?


Yeah I don't buy it. There's tons of really experienced hackers around the world...as long as the wires exist the connections are there, it'll just need to be figured out. I don't like it in any case though, hopefully the internet community will help make an alternative that can be switched on once the kill switch is flipped.

>> ^Yogi:
Yeah I don't buy it. There's tons of really experienced hackers around the world...as long as the wires exist the connections are there, it'll just need to be figured out. I don't like it in any case though, hopefully the internet community will help make an alternative that can be switched on once the kill switch is flipped.


The only way they could do it is to require every internet router (I'm not talking about your home "router," but real routers) to have something in the OS that would respond to a shutdown signal. That would require every router to be updated, and would make the internet in the US more vulnerable to an attack because every enemy we have would be trying to figure out how to trigger the kill switch and shut us down.

They can't cork a single leaking pipe in the Gulf of Mexico but we're expected to believe they can stop a worldwide series of tubes?