2010-10-01T14:19:07Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/bill/comments/64781 2010-10-01T14:19:07Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-10-01:/comment/211424 agent_509 This bill is extremely scary and a complete violation of our freedom. This has upset many people on all sides of the political spectrum. This bill needs to be stopped. Any person supporting this is either a complete fascist or doesn't understand rights and the importance of the Internet. Many people have said this, and they're right, "This would be worse than almost any cyberattack." 2010-08-11T12:06:57Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-08-11:/comment/209312 talikarni 1) Im a a long time computer tech and work for a small ISP. 2) They are able to do it, although it is not exactly easy. They would have to find a way to force private companies to shut down their DNS servers. Shut down the majority of US based DNS servers and relays, and 95% of the internet is dead around the world. So many countries outside of the US rely on the DNS servers within the US that it would likely shut down the internet. Yes this is a liberal socialist ploy to control the people. Lieberman is a liberal that claims to be a centrist, his voting record puts him in line with the Democrats 99% of the time. This would cause a massive Civil War within the US as well as massive world war from countries now shut out from the internet. STOP THIS BILL NOW, CONTACT YOUR SENATORS! 2010-06-20T22:27:33Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-20:/comment/199147 voter517 Shutting of ALL of the interet???? U mean not just united states but 100% of internet????? If so, united states definetly shouldn't have right to shut off the internet!! But if it would be JUST united states, it would still be wrong for the country itself and the other countries because over 50% of websites are from united states and lots of people are dependent from internet. It's like that because our world is all build around electricity and almost everything works with electricity, we are depend from electricity. If all electricity would suddely have taken off, what would we have? Dead people (without electric devices that keep them alive), junk, crap, sucides, broken cars (because lights doesn't work), out of order-hospitals, no defense-systems against criminals..... Closing internet is smaller thing than closing electricity, but effect would be still breaking for many many systems.... 2010-07-12T08:33:49Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-12:/comment/204510 mom2zna As an AMERICAN (it matters not if I have conservative, liberal, independent, centrist or "other" political beliefs), I oppose this bill. Labeling this as a conservative or liberal mandate is ridiculous. It is communism. 2010-08-31T10:04:08Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-08-31:/comment/210096 A_Einstein Look who is sponsoring the bill. We have Mr Israel Joe Lieberman and Jay Rockefeller who is Rothschild and Bilderberg related. Both these clowns should not be allowed in our government. This bill must be defeated. The president can shut down the internet in an emergency if necessary. This is an attempt to take control and censor the internet and establish commercial control by corporations leaving average people without a voice, thereby eliminating free speech and our right to access the truth of what is happening. This is the only media we have that is not government controlled propaganda and we cannot allow them to take it away. 2010-07-13T22:24:53Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-13:/comment/205061 zxcvmjg that's because you're an idiot who doesn't understand how the internet works. You can't just "turn off" the internet, How the hell do they plan to do this? I mean, specifically how would you go about shutting down the internet? Good luck. I'm writing a paper for school right now about this. I will probably post it. I told my entire class and my professor about this bill and they all laughed at the idea. This is a joke right? 2010-06-18T11:23:34Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-18:/comment/198931 FallenMorgan Sure is fascism in here. 2010-06-21T06:30:58Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-21:/comment/199200 zeocrash Indeed, shutting down the internet in the US is the same logic as nuking new york to make sure it's inhabitants aren't killed by terrorists (i admit i added some comic exageration, but the principal is the same) 2010-06-21T06:34:11Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-21:/comment/199204 zeocrash I'm not entirely sure how this is a push by liberals. lieberman isn't particularly liberal. 2010-06-21T06:41:01Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-21:/comment/199207 Trisha To clarify - I mean that it is physically possible. I am absolutely against the government having the authority to do this. 2010-06-22T04:32:02Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-22:/comment/199348 Trisha I agree completely. If it makes it through Congress, I think Obama will veto it. I think we need to make it clear to him and everyone in Congress that we are opposed to this. Let them know we aren't fooled by the fear tactics. 2010-06-22T08:48:56Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-22:/comment/199386 diegueno A bad idea from an even worse sponsor http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/18/senate-bill-would-give-obama-power-to-shut-down-internet/ 2010-06-22T08:50:37Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-22:/comment/199387 diegueno With all due respect, your faith in Obama is naïve. Any POTUS seems to want to accumulate as much power as possible for himself and the office in that order. 2010-07-24T13:50:53Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-24:/comment/207740 JeffWasHere well this may be along the conservative approach.... but the liberals are pushing for it now. 2010-06-25T12:46:59Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-25:/comment/200216 mastermeerkat this bill expands executive power, and obama is just another slimy politicians. hes gonna sign it. 2010-06-25T12:45:32Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-25:/comment/200214 mastermeerkat the internet is not based in the US, it has no true base. 2010-06-26T15:26:59Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-26:/comment/200410 toolib wow. the government is out of control on ALL LEVELS. 2010-06-27T18:32:48Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-27:/comment/200558 mica1884 His daring to move out of lock step with the Democrat party on one issue doesn't make him anything other than a liberal. You can't change an old leopard's spots . . . just the same as Susan Collins isn't particularly conservative. Admit it. They own him. 2010-07-02T17:32:47Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-02:/comment/203185 MoCroft I lived in Siberia for 2 years just after the collapse of the USSR - the communist party maintained just such a "kill switch" on the phone lines connecting our entire region to the outside world. They made all lines go through this one single point, so they could flip the switch if the natives got restless... (they had experienced uprisings in my region before) 2010-06-30T00:48:40Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-30:/comment/201592 zeocrash i hate to break it to you but the red sea is still very much full of water