Shut down the Internet

It is probably no surprise to many that "The Honorable" Sen John "Jay" Rockefeller IV, of West Virginia has proposed to give additional state powers to the executive branch of the government to regulate, control, and shut down the internet under the auspices of cybersecurity.

Some brief editorial is available at the American Thinker, and a more objective article is here at Computerworld.

Of course this type of empowerment of the executive branch is not a just action of our legistlative body. Giving executive authority to violate free speech and interfere in private communications is just plain enablement. I have been making my limited attempts to block and tackle this in committee.

If you have some information as to what personal interest Mr. Rockefeller has in signing away a kill switch on our ability to communicate with each other, please share it.

You can watch the status of Senate Bill 773 and Senate Bill 778.