TYT News Report - Internet Kill Switch EXPOSED

On June 19, 2010, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) introduced a bill called "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010",[4] which he co-wrote with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE). If signed into law, this controversial bill, which the American media dubbed the Kill switch bill, would grant the President emergency powers over the Internet. Other parts of the bill focus on the establishment of an Office of Cyberspace Policy and on its missions, as well as on the coordination of cyberspace policy at the federal level. Interviewed by Candy Crowley on CNN's State of the Union, Lieberman claimed that "a cyber attack on America [could] do as much or more damage [...] by incapacitating our banks, our communications, our finance, our transportation, as a conventional war attack".[5] If national security were to be severely threatened by a cyber attack, broadband providers, search engines, software firms and other major players in the Telecommunications/Computer/Internet industry could be required to immediately comply and implement any emergency measure taken;[6] for most of the month of June, media coverage of the bill insisted on this so-called 'Kill switch' provision, said to be included in the bill.[7]

However, after this proposal became controversial, in large part due to concerns that it granted too much power to the President and threatened freedom of speech, all three co-authors of the bill issued a statement claiming that instead, the bill "[narrowed] existing broad Presidential authority to take over telecommunications networks",[8] and Senator Lieberman contended that the bill did not seek to make a 'Kill switch' option available..[5] but instead insisted that serious steps had to be taken in order to counter a potential mass scale cyber attack. "Right now, China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in a case of war. We need to have that here, too," he said on Candy Crowley's State of the Union on CNN..[5]

Section 249 of the bill states that "the President may issue a declaration of a national cyber emergency to covered critical infrastructure," in which case a response plan is implemented.[4] This plan shall consist of "measures or actions necessary to preserve the reliable operation, and mitigate or remediate the consequences of the potential disruption, of covered critical infrastructure". Said measures should "represent the least disruptive means feasible to the operations of the covered critical infrastructure" and "shall cease to have effect not later than 30 days after the date on which the President issued the declaration of a national cyber emergency" unless the President seeks to extend them, with the approval of the Director of the Office of Cyberspace Policy established by the bill.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_switch#Computer_security_policy

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[Godspittbull]

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[Engineer245]

Come on people. Thsi guys seems to be a member of the Cobal that runs the USA and the World. And everyoner knows how easy it was last time for the President to declare a WAR. No, this would be too much power. HLS is already and EVIL PRANOID VILVAN!

[cunnidvd]

why on earth do they keep electing this tyrant zionist war monger

[JesusDillinger]

Joseph Lieberman is a gigantic damned liar. It's just lie after lie with him. He is a totally and deeply untrustworthy individual. The US government is indeed at war, though, undeniably and manifestly at war--with our liberties.

This TYT guy is 100% right, every word he says here.

[tinzovideo]

wow

[niemanickurwa]

A total kill switch would never happen I think, which would be a kill switch I'd be considerably less worried about (too many dollars made, by too many people, to get away with doing that at any other time than an end of the world kind of situation). Partial kill switch? Hell no. That's got "We'll let you know what we want you to know" written all over it.

Orwell will be spinning is his grave, he warned us about this 60 years ago. And believe me I'm not a conspiracy nut type of person generally

[Cortisonaonfire]

ok, i get it, we as human beigs are all made mean by nature, please control us, by the way joe thanks.