Re: Presidential Internet Kill Switch

[Amrit Williams <johndoe321 () gmail com>]

If you want to affect change, then sign up, post comments and be ignored
like the founding fathers envisioned.

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s773/text

Oh and apparently 'OMG WTF' means Office of Management and Garbage
(responsible for the efficient disposal of billions of pounds of useless
crap consumed by the average US citizen, read: dump it in some 3rd world
countries lap) and the World Trade Foundation (responsible for finding 3rd
world slave labor enabling better profits and higher margins for US
business)

Amrit

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:17 PM, <chris () blask org> wrote:

> --- On Tue, 9/22/09, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah <
> rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
>
>
> > Presidential Internet Kill Switch May Still Be Alive
>
> I'm glad that the conversation is being had.  That's the best thing about
> the Act: it is going to force a set of conversations that we all need to
> have. I just hope it doesn't end up wrapped around axles forever.
>
> "The new language dropped all references to the president's ability to shut
> down the Internet. Instead, Rockefeller and Snowe granted the president the
> authority to declare a cyber-security emergency and to direct the "national
> response to the cyber-threat."
>
> Well, yeah.
>
> In the event of a national emergency, the President has all sorts of
> extraordinary powers.  We need to work out how these play out for
> communications systems.
>
> Further, the slapshod set of regulatory regimes that exist today need to
> evolve into something more consistent, and imo this is an area where
> government should get involved.  Just like in trade - where there is a role
> for government to validate that when I buy a pound of sugar that it weighs a
> pound and is in fact sugar - the government has a valid role in setting
> baseline requirements for the management of something as fundamentally
> necessary as the national communications system.
>
> Our roles, as some of the folks who know a thing or two about the topic, is
> to engage in the conversation so it has some chance of not being completely
> ridiculous (or maybe ensuring that it is).
>
> -chris "Jack the sound barrier.  Bring the noise." blask
>
>
>
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