Speaking of skata, let me commend you on achieving the dubious distinction of
most prolific scatographer. Your crap is pervasive! You took the byline and ran with it like a cheap tabloid journalist. Clearly, either you didn't read the article, you read it but didn't comprehend it, or you read it but chose not to comprehend it. There's no other explanation for your display of ignorance.
This piece of legislation is about national security:
"Update at 3:14 p.m. PDT: I just talked to Jena Longo, deputy communications director for the Senate Commerce committee, on the phone. She sent me e-mail with this statement:
The president of the United States has always had the constitutional authority, and duty, to protect the American people and direct the national response to any emergency that threatens the security and safety of the United States. The Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity bill makes it clear that the president's authority includes securing our national cyber infrastructure from attack. The section of the bill that addresses this issue, applies specifically to the national response to a severe attack or natural disaster. This particular legislative language is based on longstanding statutory authorities for wartime use of communications networks.
To be very clear, the Rockefeller-Snowe bill will not empower a "government shutdown or takeover of the Internet" and any suggestion otherwise is misleading and false. The purpose of this language is to clarify how the president directs the public-private response to a crisis, secure our economy and safeguard our financial networks, protect the American people, their privacy and civil liberties, and coordinate the government's response."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html