13:59 U S President wants to take away the right to disable computer systems and servers | |
This is the right of the U.S. president really is, and most unusual in this whole situation is that these rights are granted Congress leader of the country at a time when the Internet or computer networks, no one dreamed of. The fact that in 1942 Congress granted the right U.S. president to manage telephonic or telegraphic networks in the event of a "difficult" situations that threaten national security. The wording of the law we see that it is relevant to almost any means or centers of wire communications. This summer, the administration of current U.S. president said that he was going to take almost forgotten the law in the event of an emergency. Some analysts have even decided that the president could in one fell swoop "disable" Internet that other experts think clearly nonsense. Nevertheless, the U.S. Congress is going to take away from the president the right to manage computer networks, as they say, away from sin. " In principle, now the U.S. government finds it perfectly legitimate without trial or investigation, or at least prevent the site owner to change the DNS-record a specific domain, so that this domain has stopped working. Such actions are made on the slightest suspicion of "piracy" or contradiction of content U.S. law. And then there's the president and his right to "steer" a global network, in any case, its U.S. segment. It is quite true experts fear that such power can not be used for good and harm. In general, now in the U.S. works pretty powerful movement of human rights that need to update a lot of laws that directly relate to the Internet, including the ill-fated Act of 1942. Of course, the button off the Internet "with U.S. President is not, it simply can not be. But the American segment of the network and the power that it focused, play a very significant role in health all over the web, so that human rights activists, agree, have reason to demand the abolition of the law on the management of "facilities and centers of wire communications." Let's hope that the president's right, and U.S. authorities in this really will be limited. Via bbc | |
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