Bill S.773 Threatens Access To The Internet.

There is a current bill passing though congress that might affect your rights to the internet. This bill would give the President the right to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat.” This bill would give the president the power to cut all internet traffic to and from the US. That means no access to information for as long as the president sees fit. This to me is over kill. I can understand regulating or shutting down networks to government facilities or utilities like power and telecommunications systems. These are the backbone of our nation and should not be open to the outside world. Any threat to these systems would be a danger to us and our country but cutting all internet access in the nation is going to far.

Links to information about this bill.

I found opencongress.org by googling for the bill, and it seems to be a vary nice site for following congress.

Politicsdaily.com has an article about the bill.

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