Rothbard’s Button

by Isaac Bergman on February 10, 2011 @ 7:47 am · 0 comments

All this recent talk of legislating and implementing an internet “kill switch” is being hyped by statists in the name of national security. Oh, just imagine the horrors if some if some malicious internet terrorists hax0r open the Hoover Dam floodgates, possibly killing thousands!

I readily agree with this FUD; but I disagree with the implementation. In order to protect the “national security interest,” the correct solution is to put not private, but all government, resources behind an internet kill switch! This way when some script kiddies start launching NORAD missiles, Obama can blister his thumb pressing the government kill switch that Murray Rothbard could only dream about.

About Isaac Bergman (18 Posts)

A father of two that loves economics, philosophy, philology, ice-skating, programming, SciFi/Fantasy novels, the Talmud and not necessarily in that order.

Tagged as: Anti-Statism, FUD, hackers, Hoover Dam, Humor, internet kill switch, kill switch, Murray N. Rothbard, national security, Obama, terrorism

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