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Re: Internet Kill Switch.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Fri Jun 18 01:07:57 2010
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:07:34 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4C428A4B.7030700@cox.net>
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On 7/17/2010 23:59, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-bill-gives-obama-kill-switch-to-shut-down-the-internet.html
Highlights:
"The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the
Internet ... figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide
web ..." [Web = Internet]
Jay Rockefeller: “Would it had been better if we’d have never invented
the Internet?” [Is thid pile on Al Gore Month?]
"The largest Internet-based corporations are seemingly happy with the
bill..."
--
Somebody should have said:
A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting
the vote.
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