US Senate trying to pass bill for "Internet Kill Switch"

Well isn't isn't this just dandy. "Land of the free" you say? Yet, you're trying to secretly pass a bill that restricts our freedoms? This seems awfully like the move of an oppressive regime. The only reason they are putting this in place is so during a "national emergency" they can prevent us from moving information. Dirt move.

Link to one of the many articles I got information from:
http://libertypulse.com/article/sneaky-senate-trying-to-slip-internet-kill-switch-past-us/

“It’s hard to get a measure like cybersecurity legislation passed on its own,” Senator Thomas Carper (D-Del.) told GovInfoSecurity.com. Carper is chairman of the Senate subcommittee with cybersecurity oversight.

Under instructions from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) are working to combine their separate bills into one that can be attached to another piece of legislation, such as the Defense Authorization Act.

While proponents say an Internet Kill Switch is needed to protect the nation’s power, water and banking grids, what it really is is a way to control the flow of information. Experts have said that the nation’s power and water grids are not connected directly to the Internet.

Lieberman let slip his real thoughts on the Internet Kill Switch in an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley when he said, “Right now China — the government — can disconnect parts of its Internet in a case of war. We need to have the ability to do that, too.”