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Re:Lieberman tells Web users to ‘relax’ about ‘kill switch’ by yesimahuman on Sunday June 20, 2010 @11:58PM (#1447892)
What if we had the internet during WWII. Being able to communicate directly with the "enemies" through the internet would have been strange.

Strange in the "why are you my enemy if I'm talking to you just fine right now and you seem like a perfectly nice person" kind of way.

To the government, communicating in this way might threaten the public attitude of the war. However, I wonder if the age of information darkness is coming to a close.

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Re:Lieberman tells Web users to ‘relax’ about ‘kill switch’ by tptacek on Monday June 21, 2010 @05:08PM (#1450085)
You do realize that the President already has the capability to shut off all communications anywhere during a time of war if it's necessary for national security?

Meanwhile, you propose that this technical measure, which would do virtually nothing to prevent communications between motivated interested parties in and out of the US, is intended to stifle free communications. If so, this is a clunky and redundant way to accomplish that objective.

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