Re: OT: Senate Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:51:55 GMT, malch@xxxxxxxxx (Malcolm Hoar)
wrote:

In article <635383db-87ed-4114-b2ca-b1718a49fc7c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Higgs Boson <hypatia08@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Update: Out of curiosity and despair at Fox mind-****ing, I
went on line and brought up S.773 - Cybersecurity Act of 2009.
I read through the whole thing, and found
only in Section 18 any rsuggestion of the absolutist
Presidential control that OP alleges. In fact, such control
It is strictly limited to certain Government entities and incorporates
other specific limitations and safeguards.

A study of Section 18 is a mini-seminar in what
Fox-type "thinkers" like to put out to create panic.

Am still waiting for someone to post the alleged
"original bill".

One of the first to cover this story was Declan McCullagh.
He is a highly respected journalist covering technology
and politics for many years. Hist article is here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

including a link to exerpts of the proposed bill here:

http://www.politechbot.com/docs/rockefeller.revised.cybersecurity.draft.082709.
pdf

Declan's Politech blog (which was around before anyone ever
heard the term "blog") is well worth reading for anyone
interested in political meddling with technology:

http://www.politechbot.com/

I'm the OP of OT topic, and did not allege anything or make a "media"
issue out of it. Huffingpost did not carry the article IIRC, at the
time.

I found this quote by Sam Diaz of ZDNet:

"Instead, just rip that language out of bill and let?s get back to
bringing in a czar and hammering out a plan for the government to work
with ? not control ? the private sector."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23473

"Sam Diaz is a senior editor at ZDNet. See his full profile and
disclosure of his industry affiliations."

.

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