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A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data.

posted April 4, 2009 - 9:20pm
A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data.

Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?

Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so.


Website: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/should...
Author: pianistic
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