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| Australia is on to the Internet 'Kill Switch' in USA |
| 2011-02-01 |
| MARK COLVIN: What does that depend on? Who will make the decision as to what is critical infrastructure? TIM WU: This new organisation created by Congress will make the decisions and no one quite knows, the bill is quite vague; it's just their mission to try and decide what critical infrastructure is and no one quite knows what they'll come up with. MARK COLVIN: So Congress won't have a say in it? Obama: Who? TIM WU: No Congress is delegating the power to this new agency. MARK COLVIN: And when the president decides to cut off the internet, whether it's in certain areas or right across the country, will Congress have any say in that? TIM WU: No it's all done by the president. Obama: Durn tootin'! MARK COLVIN: And is there any judicial review; can the Supreme Court look at it? Obama: They're in my pocket, anyway. TIM WU: No, it's just the president. It's almost a quasi-military thing to declare a quarantine you know fire the bolts and then everything that is supposedly critical infrastructure is separate from the internet. It's a very interesting kind of thing; it's like, I don't know what the analogy would be but if you can imagine the safe room and then all of the sudden you jettison the rest of the world and all the critical infrastructure is separated all in one instant, that's the idea and it's not a process and it's just the president's decision. MARK COLVIN: People have seen what happens when a country shuts down the internet in Egypt in the last week or so. Has there been a huge outcry in America about this? |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #4 "Critical infrastructure" shouldn't be connected to the Internet in the first place. That's rule number one. Also numbers two and three |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-02-01 19:53 |
| #3 "declare a quarantine you know fire the bolts and then everything that is supposedly critical infrastructure is separate from the internet." "Critical infrastructure" shouldn't be connected to the Internet in the first place. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2011-02-01 19:01 |
| #2 For Your |
| Posted by: Goodluck 2011-02-01 16:41 |
| #1 Its all a lie, sez the Senate Committee |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-02-01 15:38 |