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New Hot Topic - Latest Cybersecurity Bill Prohibits Internet 'Kill Switch'

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Responding to charges that their legislation would establish an Internet "kill switch," the top members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee introduced legislation late Thursday that would specifically keep the president from shutting down the Internet.

The committee's chairman, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and ranking member, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., in revising and reintroducing their Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act.

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