Internet Censorship: US Style

So, Barack Hussein Obama has been more busy than we thought he was. Not content with just recruiting the First Dog and beating reader LobbyDog to the first canine autobiography book deal, putting together the biggest socialist money-grab in history and losing a record number of Cabinet nominees through tax "issues" we have another.

Entertainingly he's also acquiring the legal right to "shut down the internet" whenever he is bored. Here at The Raw News although doubtless elsewhere.

"A recently proposed but little-noticed Senate bill would allow the federal government to shut down the Internet in times of declared emergency, and enables unprecedented federal oversight of private network administration. The bill's draft states that `the president may order a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic' and would give the government ongoing access to `all relevant data concerning (critical infrastructure) networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access.'

Authored by Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 seeks to create a Cybersecurity Czar to centralize power now held by the Pentagon, National Security Agency, Department of Commerce and the Department of Homeland Security."

Accepted that pulling a few wires out in the US when Obama has a bad day and has been sent to sleep on the First Sofa would do serious damage to teh interweb but it is too resilient for one man to turn off any longer. Luckily.

First we had the Great Firewall Of China, then some Muslim countries began clamping down on access; then the EU came for us and now the USA. Where will it stop?