http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/the-fight-for-freedom/Content?oid=1583747 Comments On: The Fight for Freedom en-us Copyright 2013 Gambit. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Gambit readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Gambit. vip@gambitweekly.com (Gambit Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I haven't seen that letter, so I can't comment on it, except to say that none of the diverse and significant group just listed really qualifies as a group of computer security experts--most are concerned with privacy issues or an ideological view inherently in favor of limiting government, but not computer security.
More to the point, nothing in the legislation supports the view that any President is given authority by it to shut down Americans' access to the Internet. Not to say there aren't legitimate privacy concerns--I haven't looked at it from that perspective--but opposing the legislation for privacy concerns by saying that it gives Presidents the power to shut down the Internet is equivalent to being opposed to the healthcare bill that was passed because of "death panels"--that critique is not fact-based.
Posted by dkelly2784]]> Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:44:15 -0600 Gambit Posted by Kevin Allman]]> Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:15:55 -0600 Gambit "Legislation titled “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset,” championed by Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., is couched as an attempt to protect American infrastructure in the event of a terrorist attack—but computer security experts say it could be used the same way Mubarak shut down Egyptian internet providers. …
"In our view, no president—Democrat or Republican—should have the fearsome authority to shut down Americans’ internet access.
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