On the heels of what's being described as the biggest electronic shutdown by a government, legislators in the U.S. are trying to reintroduce a bill that would give the President an Internet 'kill switch.'
Last week, the Egyptian government deactivated virtually all of the country's Internet access and mobile phone networks in an attempt to stop the spread of protests to the governance of President Hosni Mubarak. On the same day that Egypt's Internet went dark, senators Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins re-introduced a bill granting President Obama the authority to shut down the Internet within the United States in the event of a cyberattack.

The bill, an amendment to the Homeland Security Act of 2002, was initially introduced last year but was tabled in December after election of a new Republican-led House of Representatives.

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