The “KILL SWITCH”: Obama to Kill the Internet in Emergency

In lieu of a law being proposed in the U.S., the proposed anti-internet bill awards President Obama with the power to shut down the Internet with a “kill switch” when an emergency strikes.

Google, Yahoo and more could easily be bumped off .

If you’re with me on this one and wondering the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of the situation, read on to know why U.S. thinks its essential.

Under the proposed bill, which has been dubbed an ‘Internet kill switch’, the US Government would effectively seize control of access to the internet.

The proposed legislation was introduced into the US Senate by Joe Lieberman, chairman of the US Homeland Security committee, who argued that the bill was necessary to ‘preserve those networks and assets and our country and protect our people’.

He was quoted : “For all of its ‘user-friendly’ allure, the Internet can also be a dangerous place with electronic pipelines that run directly into everything from our personal bank accounts to key infrastructure to government and industrial secrets.”

US senators actually are in gripped in a fear of a vicious cyber-attack on the U.S. which could paralyse the nation.

“Our economic security, national security and public safety are now all at risk from new kinds of enemies–cyber-warriors, cyber-spies, cyber-terrorists and cyber-criminals.”

His bill is formally titled the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, or PCNAA.

If you’re in any other part of the globe besides America, you can take a breathe easy as the U.S. government can do nothing about internet in other countries.

Thank God for small mercies!

But they could wipe off mammothly visited sites such as Yahoo,YouTube and Google.

Yes – no chatting with your pals in Manhattan after the “kill switch” is turned on.

Google,Yahoo and YouTube, the top three most visited sites, are all based in the US.

Google logs an estimated two billion hits a day from 300 million users.

According to the cyber laws, any company on a list created by Homeland Security that also ‘depends on’ the Internet, the telephone system, or any other component of the U.S. ‘information infrastructure’ would be subject to command by a new National Centre for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC) that would be created inside Homeland Security.

Critics of the new law said it would be an abuse of power to let the White House control the internet.

TechAmerica, one of the largest U.S. technology lobby groups, said the new law had the ‘potential for absolute power.’.

The ‘cybersecurity emergency’ makes any company, that falls under its guidelines and fails to comply accordingly, subject to huge fines.

Interestingly, Google, the world’s most ‘loved’ search engine, refused to comment.

A spokesman said the law was not yet (notice the emphasis please) Government policy.

And we will definitely pray to make sure it stays that way.