>The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive.

>http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-bill-gives-obama-kill-switch-to-shut-down-the-internet.html

I heard about this a while back - seems rather unamerican if you ask me.

>So we've got a Dem (Rockefeller) and a so-called Ind (Leiberman) supporting this...how much longer until the social conservatives of the Reps jump on board. Especially if it's to "protect the children".
>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/15/epidemic-growth-of-net-porn-cited/
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>UGH!

yeah that's a good one. Everyone wants someone ELSE to protect their children from porn - guess the parents don't want to use any of the zillion tools avail to block such stuff.

I liked the dot xxx ( .xxx ) idea for all porn websites but that idea has been shot down too.