Obama to Imitate Mubarak's Internet Policy

The legislation for the Internet, which would grant Obama the powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet as in the case of Mubarak's Egypt, would soon be reintroduced to a senate committee.

One of Australia's top communications experts, University of Sydney associate professor Bjorn Landfeldt, had previously railed against the idea, saying shutting down the internet would "inflict an enormous damage on the entire world".

He said it would be like giving a single country "the right to poison the atmosphere, or poison the ocean".