Mubarak Tells Egypt He Will Not Seek Re-Election

Digital Darkness: US & UK Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommun­ications and Identify Dissident Voices


Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins plan to reintroduc­e legislatio­n called the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act that they introduced in the last Congress that would allow the US government to shut down civilian access to the internet as Mubarak is doing in Egypt. 

It was introduced in the last session by senators Lieberman, Collins and Tom Carper.  It made it through the Homeland Security Committee in December, but it died by the end of the session.  A Wired story from earlier this week indicated that they intend to reintroduc­e this bill. And the problem with the bill is that it creates in the executive branch the capacity to cut down what they call critical—t­o shut down critical infrastruc­ture in the case of a national threat. So, we are—at Free Press and others, ACLU and others, are trying to make sure that that legislatio­n, if it goes forward, doesn’t have that specific language in it.

More 'reasonabl­e'-ness.  More 'pragmatis­m'.

Why compromise at all?  Why let the legislatio­n go forward at all?
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