Internet Kill Switch

"Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act"- sometimes the most dangerous legislation is passed under the most innocuous name. This Act has just emerged from committee, passing on to deliberations before the full US Senate with bipartisan support led by Independent Joe Lieberman and joined by Maine's Susan Collins from the GOP and Democrat Tom Carper of Delaware. This bill would give the US President the power to shut down the world-wide web for one hundred and twenty days based on his arbitrary judgement of a threat (whose definition is left to the President's discretion) and then could be extended beyond that with Congressional approval. I would not have trusted George W. Bush who I held in much higher esteem than I regard the current President with such authority. Why should we entrust a leader, namely Obama, who seems insatiable in his lust for power, already grabbing the banking sector, automobile companies, and control of our healthcare, with the ability to shut down the medium most of us use to exercise our First Amendment free speech prerogatives on a whim?