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I agree, I think the government should be able to shut down the government sites. Private corp should be able to cut off their own. I do NOt like the idea of one person having the power to do all of the above

or you just may get the internet shut down! way to go lil

I think by then Cheney could get elected!

cyber attacks are thing to improve firewalls against but shutting down the DNS to do it is not the right idea. We need to keep the internet up and running as non restricted as possible. An Attack that took down our power would only last a possible few days as most power companies still have ways of keeping the power going even if there network goes down. Communications would take a hit but only the weakest networks would fall. The most common attack to happen is called a DDOS (Dynamic Denial of Service) Attack it is where you have a bot net or multiple computers send pings or other request to a server over and over again until the server is unable to respond to the real target like a customer or a visitor to a .gov website. TO restrict or shut down the internet when ever he chooses is a massive encroachment on our rights to freedom of speech and press or media.

TO restrict or shut down the internet when ever he chooses is a massive encroachment on our rights to freedom of speech and press or media Exactly. In a free country there is NO reason for the government to have this power. Not free countries have their government use it against them to stop them being able to get or give information on what is going on. Iran shut down the internet when they had riots. Chavez shuts down the internet when ever a group rises up against him. There is too much of a chance to abuse this power. Our governmetn should not have it. They need to improve security against cyber attacks...not be able to take away our freedoms.

National Sandia Labs recently simulated attacks accross the country, they were able to get into the stock exchange, banks, nuclear power plants, chemical plants, distroy power plants by self distructing generators that cannot be replaced in six months and they can get into many military servers. This is not syfy. An attack could easily kill millions of Americans. This is more important then any other attack we might have and the NSA and the Joint Cheifs have been warning the Senate and the President for the last dozens years about this problem. The president has the responsibility to shut down the world by pushing a button for nuclear attack. Does anyone really believe that he would do this for fun or political reasons. He is not going to shut down the American commerce on a whim when it would cost billions of dollars for everyone. Chavez did not shut down the internet for political reasons he shut it down because they were under attack and shut their power off for hours. Sixty Minutes just did the whole story two weeks ago...