Cyberspace Protection bill approved by Senate, no Internet kill switch

That there's no formally-defined internet kill switch in this bill actually worsens the problem --- if you're the kind of person to see it as a "problem" that the same guy who can have a major metro area in the middle east bombed in your name can also cause a packet to be filtered.

That's because The President already has the authority to shut off the Internet, and, uh, pretty much everything else. Sec 706 (47 USC 606) (d). Comms Act of 1934. Suck it, Internet!

A more carefully proscribed national security power for the President --- one that acknowledged the Internet and the limits of the President's power over it, rather than simply "all wire communication" and "all electromagnetic communications" --- would actually help Internet-liberatarians.

For my own part, I'm glad the President has this power; I predict he'll need it within the next 4-6 years.

So, it limits the President's power. But, in doing so, it also gives more power to the rest of the national government.