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White House considers executive order, leaves Internet takeover a possibility
 The White House has left open the possibility of enacting its Internet agenda via executive order after the failed effort to bring the Democrat-supported cybersecurity bill to a full vote in the Senate last week.That way the internet can work as well as the post office... In response to a question from The Hill, a Washington, D.C. political newspaper, about whether President B.O. was considering advancing his party's cyber-plan "In the wake of Congressional inaction and Republican stall tactics, unfortunately, we will continue to be hamstrung by outdated and inadequate statutory authorities that the legislation would have fixed," he said via email. "Moving forward, the President is determined to do absolutely everything we can to better protect our nation against today's cyber threats and we will do that." He wasn't too good at "Simon sez" when he was a kid, I'll betcha... The failed cyber security bill, which could be revived by Sen. Majority Leader  Harry Reid... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... when the Senate comes back from recess in September, would have given federal agencies in charge of regulating critical infrastructure industries like power companies and utilities the ability to mandate cybersecurity recommendations. It takes only a minor change in definition to make the internet itself a "critical infrastructure industry." Then it can be regulated for "fairness." The enforcement of "fairness" would call for a few taxes to pay for it... Shortly before the Senate's August recess, Obama penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he threw his support behind the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. An executive order would be another action from the B.O. regime to extend executive branch authority over a largely free and open Internet. Posted by: Fred 2012-08-06 |
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