Joe Lieberman’s Senate Homeland Security committee passed this week a “cybersecurity” bill that would expand the President’s powers and control of the Internet in a national emergency. In addition to Lieberman, the bill’s sponsors include Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and Susan Collins (R-ME). But it was Collins’ defense of the bill that should send shivers up the spines of anyone who cares about the Internet.
“Misrepresentations in the Cybersphere,” or, Why Congress Shouldn’t Touch the Internet |
| By: Michael Whitney Sunday June 27, 2010 10:57 am |
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Barack Obama Doesn’t Care for Your Internet Messages |
| By: Michael Whitney Wednesday March 31, 2010 9:05 am |
Barack Obama reads 10 letters a day from regular, everyday Americans. Only none from you damn Internet machine-using hippies.
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