{"id":187900,"date":"2011-01-31T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/31\/because-we-want-to-be-just-like-hosni-mubaraks-egypt\/"},"modified":"2011-01-31T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T00:09:00","slug":"because-we-want-to-be-just-like-hosni-mubaraks-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/31\/because-we-want-to-be-just-like-hosni-mubaraks-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Because We Want to Be Just Like Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Collins and Joseph &#8220;The Human Stain&#8221; Lieberman, want there to be <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31921_3-20029282-281.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody\">kill switch for the Internet in the United States that can be invoked at will without judicial review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a &#8220;national cyberemergency,&#8221; and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year.<\/p>\n<p>Internet companies should not be alarmed by the legislation, first introduced last summer by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), a Senate aide said last week. Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not trying to mandate any requirements for the entire Internet, the entire Internet backbone,&#8221; said Brandon Milhorn, Republican staff director and counsel for the committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The revised version includes new language saying that the federal government&#8217;s designation of vital Internet or other computer systems &#8220;shall not be subject to judicial review.&#8221; Another addition expanded the definition of critical infrastructure to include &#8220;provider of information technology,&#8221; and a third authorized the submission of &#8220;classified&#8221; reports on security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of creating what some critics have called an Internet &#8220;kill switch&#8221; that the president could flip in an emergency is not exactly new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just imagine Dick Cheney&#8217;s finger on the button.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not subject to judicial review,&#8221; that&#8217;s a wet dream for the former VP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Collins and Joseph &#8220;The Human Stain&#8221; Lieberman, want there to be kill switch for the Internet in the United States that can be invoked at will without judicial review: A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a &#8220;national cyberemergency,&#8221; and prohibiting any review by the court system, will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,969,997,1061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-evil","category-internet","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}