The ultimate censorship - US Communications Act allows president to shut off the internet

 Daily Mail   UK

REVEALED: Government's secret plans for apocalyptic events included total takeover or shut down of citizens' communication networks

• The previously classified files, obtained by the NYU nonpartisan nonprofit the Brennan Center for Justice, detail wartime powers the president can enact
• The center obtained the 500 pages files through a Freedom of Information Act request. A further 6,000 pages were kept classified
• The files, which were all penned during the Bush Administration, detail a law that permits the president to take over or shut down the networks during wartime
• The policy, called the Communications Act, says the president is allowed, if he finds it necessary for national defense,' to nix civilians' means of communication

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10861465/Governments-secret-plans-apocalyptic-events-included-total-social-networks.html

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