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by Jeff Davis

A recent news article reports “The federal government would have ‘absolute power’ to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative ‘kill switch’ to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive. Lieberman has been pushing for government regulation of the Internet for years under the guise of cybersecurity, but this new bill goes even further in handing emergency powers over to the feds which could be used to silence free speech under the pretext of a national emergency. ‘The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed by the Department of Homeland Security. Anyone failing to comply would be fined,’ reports ZDNet’s Declan McCullagh. The 197-page bill is entitled Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, or PCNAA.”

A good way to figure out what is actually in a federal law is to assume it means the exact opposite of what it is entitled. The Patriot Act effectively rescinds the Constitution and is really a Tyranny Act. This “Protecting Cyberspace Act” is all about protecting politicians from public scrutiny and choking off the Internet so Americans can’t tell other Americans what’s really going on during a national crisis.

The article continues “The largest Internet-based corporations are seemingly happy with the bill, primarily because it contains language that will give them immunity from civil lawsuits and also reimburse them for any costs incurred if the Internet is shut down for a period of time. If there’s an incident related to a cyber vulnerability after the President has declared an emergency and the affected company has followed federal standards, plaintiffs’ lawyers cannot collect damages for economic harm. And if the harm is caused by an emergency order from the Feds, not only does the possibility of damages virtually disappear, but the US Treasury will even pick up the private company’s tab.”

The political elite are desperate to seize control of the Internet because they are enraged and terrified at the fact that alternative independent media outlets are now eclipsing the Jewish-controlled mainstream media in terms of audience share, trust and influence, as witness the attempt to shut down the Drudge Report through forcing alternative news sites to pay for links to “legitimate” news stories.

What they’ve been doing for years is quietly maneuvering all kinds of restrictive and unconstitutional laws into place and getting them on the books. Not using them right away, to be sure, but getting them nice and settled in on the statute books. The worst examples of all are of course the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act of 2006. We need to start taking these laws off the books and shutting down future attempts to pass police state laws authored by the likes of Joe Lieberman and Charles Schumer.