From the President of the United States want to take the right to disable computer systems and servers

The president of the United States really has such a right, and the most unusual thing in this whole situation is that these rights were granted to the country's leader by a congress at a time when no one was thinking about the Internet or computer networks. The fact is that in 1942, Congress granted the right to the US President to manage telephone or telegraph networks in the event of “difficult” situations that threaten national security. In the wording of the law we see that it relates to almost any means or centers of wired communications. This summer, the administration of the current US president announced that it was going to use the forgotten law in case of an emergency.

Some analysts even decided that the president could “turn off” the Internet in one fell swoop, which other experts consider to be sheer nonsense. Nevertheless, the US Congress is going to take away from the president the right to manage computer networks, as they say, "out of harm's way."
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In principle, now the US authorities consider it completely legal without a trial, investigation or at least a warning to the site owner to change the DNS records of a specific domain so that this domain stops working. Such actions are made on the slightest suspicion of "piracy" or a contradiction of the contents of the site to US law.

And then there is the president with his right to “steer” the global network, at least, its American segment. The fears of experts that such power can be used not for good, but for harm, are quite fair.

In general, now in the US there is a rather powerful movement of human rights activists, who demand to update a lot of laws that directly relate to the Internet, including the ill-fated law of 1942. Of course, the President of the United States does not have a “disable Internet” button, it simply cannot be. But the American segment of the Network and the capacities that are concentrated in it play a very significant role in the operation of the entire Network, so human rights activists, you see, have reason to demand the repeal of the law on the management of "means and centers of wired communications."

Let us hope that the rights of the president, and of the US authorities in this, will indeed be limited.

Via bbc