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White House crafting legislation to give DHS more control over the internet. (federalnewsradio.com)
2 points by nika 5540 days ago
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The article seems to say that the only extra control is over governmental "cybersecurity", whatever that is.

Still, this seems like a mistake, given DHS' love of rules and procedures, coupled with its inability to perform any process more elaborate than closing a door. Perhaps DHS own "Blogger Bob" could explain this move in a way that won't draw any reports of simple logical errors.

I think Blogger Bob is the TSA? But the DHS is the ones that were behind the seizure of "torrent" domains, without any kind of court ruling or trial.

I wish we had access to the proposed legislation.

I find the idea of the white house writing secret legislation to be very troubling.