Is This Place Going To Get Shutdown?

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Subject: Is This Place Going To Get Shutdown? Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:30 am

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20007418-38.html

Quote :: A new U.S. Senate bill would grant the president far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of or even shut down portions of the Internet.

Quote :: TechAmerica, probably the largest U.S. technology lobby group, said it was concerned about "unintended consequences that would result from the legislation's regulatory approach" and "the potential for absolute power." And the Center for Democracy and Technology publicly worried that the Lieberman bill's emergency powers "include authority to shut down or limit Internet traffic on private systems."

Community Organizer Posts : 115 Join date : 2010-06-01

Oh yeah, i"m sure thats going to happen.

Here we have the very same government that cannot even manage something as simple as the transportation of a letter from point a to point b, nor can they do this without loosing money due to operational inefficiencies.

What makes you think they have the ability to do so ev en if they wanted to ?

Subject: Re: Is This Place Going To Get Shutdown? Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:42 am

hyperduc wrote:: Oh yeah, i"m sure thats going to happen.

Here we have the very same government that cannot even manage something as simple as the transportation of a letter from point a to point b, nor can they do this without loosing money due to operational inefficiencies.

What makes you think they have the ability to do so ev en if they wanted to ?

DO you want to let them try? I sure don't!

Community Organizer Posts : 115 Join date : 2010-06-01

No, I don't. I don't want them to even think they have the right to do it.

But again, our best and brightest aren't working in the public sector.

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