President Barack Obama will have the right to close access to the Internet when in an emergency. It was proposed in the Law on national security to the parliament of the United States.
In these rules contained that to maintain national security of the United States when experiencing an emergency, the President of the United States can ask for closing the temporary access to the internet companies in the U.S. Thus was launched Dailymail, Sunday (06/20/2010).
When the Act was passed, the search engines like Google, Yahoo, and also the Internet service provider based in the United States must comply with the U.S. president in an emergency. With a sense, the President can ‘kill’ the internet for a while.
Any internet company that refused to comply will be subject to sanctions under the applicable rules.
However, this rule is apparently not passed, considering the many critics who posted the proposed Act superiors. Former U.S. presidential candidate, Joe Liebermann said the rules are prone to be misused by the White House primarily to control the virtual world.
Another criticism conveyed TechAmerica group, stating that these rules will potentially create an absolute rule.
These rules essentially motivated by a number of hacker attacks to the virtual world. As known since the last three years the number of attacks jumped approximately 400 percent. With the rules then the government closed access can easily monitor Internet access.