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Friday, June 18th, 2010, 1:32 am
Maine senator supports bill to hand president control of the Internet in emergencies
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, introduced a Senate bill last week that would give the president authority to shut down or control parts of the Internet in the case of a national emergency. Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins co-sponsored the bill …
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William P. Davis is editor of MediaME, the Observer’s tech and journalism blog, and chief Web guru for maineobserver.net. He also serves as online editor for the Bangor Daily News, and was the 2009-2010 editor in chief of The Maine Campus, the semiweekly newspaper at the University of Maine. He can be reached on Twitter @williampd and by e-mail at will@maineobserver.net.