Kill Switch for Internet and Fund Mainstream Newspapers

Joe Lieberman is pushing a bill that will allow president Obama to shut down the internet, without congressional approval, for a period of up to 4 months.

Lieberman is claiming this is a good idea because, China has a similar bill to be able to do this during times of war.

China? Lieberman wants us to be like China? Since when do we want to promote legislation similar to a communist country?

Also stated in the article, which you can read by clicking the title of this post::

The real agenda behind government control of the Internet has always been to strangle and suffocate independent media outlets who are now competing with and even displacing establishment press organs, with websites like the Drudge Report now attracting more traffic than many large newspapers combined. As part of this war against independent media, the FTC recently proposing a “Drudge Tax” that would force independent media organizations to pay fees that would be used to fund mainstream newspapers.

What on G-d's green earth is going on here? A tax that would fund newspapers?! Now the government wants to be involved in funding the press? Is this a joke? I cannot believe that I am even reading this. So because, Drudge is considered a conservative, who simply has a website that is filled daily with links to news stories, he is a threat to the mainstream media? Many of those stories come from mainstream media websites.

My how this country has fallen! This is supposed to be a country that rewards success, not one that caters to the will of failures, in this case mainstream media.