You know, I could be president someday. And when I am, I’ll remember those of you who linked to me more fondly than those who didn’t.

Just keep that in mind.

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

Via Memeorandum.

UPDATE - Marc Ambinder wants “nuance:”

Let’s stipulate: this is a good and needed debate to have.

Debate? What debate? When I’m president, I’ll choose which parts of the internet get to stay on, and which get turned off, based on my entirely unanchored whim.

The moral: be on my good side.