Internet 'kill switch'--help or hindrance? (poll) | Privacy Inc. - CNET News

Internet 'kill switch'--help or hindrance? (poll) | Privacy Inc. - CNET News: "'It's difficult for the US to criticize an autocrat like Hosni Mubarak for shutting down the Internet if we give our own president similarly sweeping powers,' says Berin Szoka of the TechFreedom think tank in Washington, D.C. 'Even if that never, ever happens here, our having such laws on the books certainly makes it more likely other governments will gain, and abuse, such powers.'"