The president already had much of this power and I don't see what is so unusual about this. If the country is under a cyber attack and shutting everything down is needed then so be it. Sure the power can be abused but any power can be abused. Not many people think the President should not be allowed to authorize military action just because it CAN be abused.
Also turning off the internet would be disastrous for the economy so any president would be careful with using the nuclear option to counter a cyber attack.
Any site that prominently touts gold hucksterism is surely one that demands to be taken seriously. Give me Art Bell and alien synchronicity experiment conspiracies any day.
Commanding telecoms to temporarily curtail online access to their subscribers isn't anywhere near the same thing as "shutting off the Internet", as I suspect it would only apply to domestic customers of those particular companies.
The Internet was after all designed precisely so that it CAN'T be "shut down" in the sense I think these people mean.
Also, cell phone networks.
Also turning off the internet would be disastrous for the economy so any president would be careful with using the nuclear option to counter a cyber attack.
The Internet was after all designed precisely so that it CAN'T be "shut down" in the sense I think these people mean.
Any emergency preparedness kit should be put together with power outages in mind. You'll need porn and a flashlight.
And IPv6 over TCP is even more capable.