How Much Government Control Of Web In Cybercrisis?

FILE - In this July 8, 2009 file photo, an employee of Korea Internet Security Center works at a monitoring room in Seoul, South Korea. There is no kill switch for the Internet, no secret on-off button in an Oval Office drawer. Yet when Congress was exploring ways to secure computer networks, a plan to give the president the power to shut down Internet traffic to Web sites in an emergency set off alarms. Corporate leaders and privacy advocates protested the idea earlier this year, saying the government must not seize control. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, FILE)

From Breitbart/AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) - There's no kill switch for the Internet, no secret on-off button in an Oval Office drawer.

Yet when a Senate committee was exploring ways to secure computer networks, a provision to give the president the power to shut down Internet traffic to compromised Web sites in an emergency set off alarms.

Corporate leaders and privacy advocates quickly objected, saying the government must not seize control of the Internet.

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My Comment: Short of telling the Telecom companies to completely close down the grid, Government will have a problem of controlling the web as a whole. On an individual or local level government can have an influence .... but on a national level .... I have my doubts.