Turn off the internet? Soon the President might be able to do it.
The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would allow the president to declare “national cyber emergencies” and requires that “the owner or operator of covered critical infrastructure shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action” demanded of them, in section 249.c.1.
Introduced by Connecticut senator Joseph Lieberman, the bill also would establish a “National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications” under the Department of Homeland Security.
The bill is available as a PDF from OpenCongress.org.
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