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Old 01-31-2011, 03:05 PM   #35 (permalink)
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A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a "national cyberemergency," and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year; the bill which emerged from a Senate committee on 15 December 2010, is more restrictive in three respects than the original bill, made public June 2010: The revised version sayis that the federal government's designation of vital Internet or other computer systems "shall not be subject to judicial review"; another addition expanded the definition of critical infrastructure to include "provider of information technology"; a third authorized the submission of "classified" reports on security vulnerabilities

Bill giving president power over Internet in cyber emergency to return | Homeland Security News Wire
Sounds familiar ... I could have sworn some dictator just did this to silence the people who wanted to speak out against the government ... oh yeah!
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