Obama signs Executive Order empowering Kill Switch over the Internet

Reblogged from BUNKERVILLE | God, Guns and Guts Comrades!:

Not much excitement about this apparently.So what he cannot do by Congressional action, he does by fiat. The interesting part is that his Executive Order was posted in the Federal Register and gives 30 days for responses. Presidential powers over the Internet and telecommunications were laid out in a U.S. Senate bill in 2009, which proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

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2 Responses to Obama signs Executive Order empowering Kill Switch over the Internet

  1. Thanks for the link.

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