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Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us
sanermind writes "Sensing Senators don't have the stomach to try and pass a stand-alone bill in broad daylight that would give the President the power to shut down the Internet in a national emergency, the Senate is considering attaching the Internet Kill Switch bill as a rider to other legislation that would have bi-partisan support."
The Internet is the cheapest available method to move bits from one place to another. Is there a another network that does the job well enough to be considered a competitor?
There's this thing called a local area network.
In the presence of the internet, and internet-like service running locally, we can distinguish it by calling it the "intranet". We can even extend our "intranet" to remote (non-local) locations through the use of virtual private networks, or VPNs.
Hello and welcome to the 1980s.
Watch out for the boneitis.