Senate Bill gives Obama 'kill switch' on web‎

The HN submission is a wee bit inflamatory (the bill gives "Obama" the kill switch) The actual title of the article is "Senate Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet".<p>Aside from that, surely there's a more appropriate (i.e. technically credible) source for the HN readership than Fox News.

I wonder how much of the worlds commerce would shut down if the American government decided to see how well this works.<p>The internet may have been a DARPA project in the long lost past to keep communications open in the face of a nuclear war, the fact is that with a 'US sized hole' in the routing tables plenty of traffic will have trouble making it to its destination.<p><a href="http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/com_test/img\dsnl\internet15jan06.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/com_test/img\dsnl\internet15jan06....</a><p>Shows a pretty picture on what the rough topology of the net looked like in 2006, the legend of the graph is here:<p><a href="http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/com_test/dsnl.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/com_test/dsnl.aspx</a><p>I can't imagine Canada would be very happy either.<p>If the US would <i>ever</i> even for a test try this trick I'm fairly sure there would be worldwide calls for a boycott.

No, it doesn't. See comments here:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=791586" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=791586</a>

Uh, what percentage of the Internet backbone is running on government infrastructure? The President hardly needs a new law if he wanted to shut things down.