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10 Safe Chat Sites for Teens That Aren’t Too Lame | DSL Service Providers

Teens love to hang out and talk to their friends, but that’s not always safe to do online.
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Hype and Hyperbole about the Internet Kill Switch and Privacy - What You Need to Know - Topix

Obama 'Internet kill switch' plan approved by US Senate panel - Techworld.com

A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack. Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the charges that the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act gives the president an Internet "kill switch." Instead, the bill puts limits on the powers the president already has to cause "the closing of any facility or stations for wire communication" in a time of war, as described in the Communications Act of 1934, they said in a breakdown of the bill published on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee website. http://news.techworld.com/security/3228198/obama-internet-kill-switch-plan-approved-by-us-senate-panel/
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Internet Blackout Costs Egypt £56m | eWEEK Europe UK

The Egyptian government’s decision to cut off the Internet amid protests cost the country £11m a day The Egyptian government’s blocking of Internet services for five days is likely to have cost the country roughly $90 million (£56m), according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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Internet blackouts: Reaching for the kill switch | The Economist

THE timing was dire. On January 25th American senators reintroduced a bill granting the president emergency powers to shut down parts of the nation’s internet as a defence against cyber-attack. Three days later Egypt’s embattled autocrats took their country offline.